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Political economy of redistribution between traditional and modern families
Meier, Volker; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2019
We analyse a model in which families may either be “traditional” single-earner with caring for the child at home or “modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like market care subsidies vs. cash for care....
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Anticipated children and educational investment : evidence from the one-child policy in China
Raiber, Eva - 2021
Does the number of future anticipated children affect educational investment in parents-to-be? In theory, anticipated children can affect the returns to education, the resources available for family consumption, and the incentives for pre-marital investment. Changes in the eligibility criteria...
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Divorce and the birth control pill
Marcén, Miriam - 2013
This paper explores the role of the birth control pill on divorce. To identify its effect, we use a quasi experiment exploiting the differences in the language of the Comstock anti-obscenity statutes approved in the 1800s and early 1900s in the US. Results suggest that banning the sales of oral...
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Does the right to work part-time affect mothers' labor market outcomes?
Paule-Paludkiewicz, Hannah - 2020
higher-order fertility. I use a differences-in-differences design to investigate the introduction of a German law in 2001 …
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Do children prevent their poor old parents from working?
Rao, Ziwei - 2021
This study provides the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of fertility outcomes on old-age labor supply, by … exogenous instruments of fertility. The results show strong impact of children on preventing old parents from strenuous works at …
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From housewives to employees? : how mandatory kindergarten affects mothers' labour supply in Switzerland
Gangl, Selina; Huber, Martin - 2019
We analyse the effect of a mandatory kindergarten for four-year-old children on mothers' labour supply in Switzerland. Since education policy is regulated on a federal level, we exploit spatial variation as well as staggered implementation. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find an...
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From homemakers to breadwinners? : how mandatory kindergarten affects maternal labour market attachment
Gangl, Selina; Huber, Martin - 2021 - Revised version
We analyse the effect of a mandatory kindergarten for four-year-old children on maternal labour supply in Switzerland by using two quasi-experiments: Firstly, we use a large administrative dataset and apply a non-parametric Regression Discontinuity Design to evaluate the effect of the reform at...
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Is there a fertility paradox in Denmark?
Lauridsen, Jørgen - 2015
Alike most of the Western world, the Danish fertility rate declined throughout the 20th century simultaneous to … economic growth. This development, which conflicts with economic intuition, has been denoted the fertility paradox, and several … the fertility rate during the years 1982 to 2004. Several factors commonly believed to explain the variation in the …
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Space-time dynamics of fertility and commuting
Kotyrlo, Elena S. - 2014
The study contributes in analytical description of spatial diffusion of fertility, in particular, influenced by labour … market due to commuting, which, in turn, affects fertility. The analytical model, decomposing spatial interaction of … fertility and commuting, is constructed on the base of a model of the demand for children, spatial stock-flow model, and a …
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Heterogeneous effects of women's schooling on fertility, literacy and work : evidence from Burundi's free primary education policy
Wild, Frederik; Stadelmann, David - 2020
situated at all wealth levels, the relevant downstream effects of schooling - measured by fertility, literacy and employment … reduced fertility through policy induced education, while there are almost no effects of additional education for non …-poor women. Our findings help in evaluating the generalisability of the nexus between women's education and fertility as well as …
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