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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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Two-stage least squares random forests with a replication of angrist and evans (1998)

Biewen, Martin; Kugler, Philipp - 2020

We develop the case of two-stage least squares estimation (2SLS) in the general framework of Athey et al. (Generalized Random Forests, Annals of Statistics, Vol. 47, 2019) and provide a software implementation for R and C++. We use the method to revisit the classic application of instrumental...

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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 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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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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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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Assessment of labour market returns in the case of gender unique human capital

Tverdostup, Maryna; Paas, Tiiu - 2016

earning profiles of unique human capital holders is analysed implementing several matching procedures and non …

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Speaking the same language : the effect of foreign origin teachers on students' language skills

Höckel, Lisa Sofie - 2019 - This version: August 12, 2019

Population diversity arising from international migration does not only affect the labor market, but also its training ground – the classroom. While the economics literature studies the large and persistent achievement gap between native and foreign origin students, surprisingly little is...

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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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