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Kids or Courses? Gender Differences in the Effects of Active Labor Market Policies
Lechner, Michael; Wiehler, Stephan - 2021
This paper investigates active labor market programs in Austria with a special emphasis on male-female effect heterogeneity. On average, we find only small effects, if any, for most of the programs. A crucial advantage of the large and informative administrative data we use is that it provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317123
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The effect of prenatal maternity leave on short and long-term child outcomes
Ahammer, Alexander; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole - In: Journal of health economics 70 (2020), pp. 1-20
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Womb at work : the missing impact of maternal employment on newborn health
Chuard, Caroline - In: Journal of health economics 73 (2020), pp. 1-23
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Improving Maternal and Reproductive Health in South Asia : Drivers and Enablers
El-Saharty, Sameh - 2016 - Online-Ausg.
South Asia Region (SAR) has decreased maternal mortality ratio (MMR) by 65 percent between 1990 and 2013, which was the greatest progress among all world regions. Such achievement implores the question, What made SAR stand out against what is predicted by standard socioeconomic outcomes?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245316
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The effect of prenatal maternity leave on short and long-term child outcomes
Ahammer, Alexander; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole - 2018
Maternity leave policies are presumed to be essential to ensure the health of pregnant workers and their unborn children. However, little is known about the optimal duration of prenatal maternity leave and existing policies are not evidence-based. We evaluate a substantial maternity leave...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807504
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Womb at work : the missing impact of maternal employment on newborn health
Chuard, Caroline - 2018 - This version: October 2018
during pregnancy on newborn health. In this paper, I exploit three sharp policy changes on the duration of paid parental … leave in Austria that strongly affected the share of mothers who work up to the 32nd week of pregnancy. I use administrative … discontinuity framework to identify the effect of prenatal employment on their offspring. Maternal employment during pregnancy with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911101
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Improving maternal and reproductive health in South Asia : drivers and enablers
El-Saharty, Sameh; Chowdhury, Sadia; Ohno, Naoko; … - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011566927
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El embarazo en adolescentes : un desafío multidimensional para generar oportunidades en el ciclo de vida
UNDP - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012205992
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The effect of prenatal maternity leave on short and long-term child outcomes
Ahammer, Alexander; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole - 2018
caused by work in the third trimester of pregnancy. We find no evidence for significant effects of this extension on children …. We conclude that, for workers without problems in pregnancy, mandatory maternity leave should not start prior to the 35th …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993689
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Kids or Courses? Gender Differences in the Effects of Active Labor Market Policies
Lechner, Michael; Wiehler, Stephan - 2007
This paper investigates active labor market programs in Austria with a special emphasis on male-female effect heterogeneity. On average, we find only small effects, if any, for most of the programs. A crucial advantage of the large and informative administrative data we use is that it provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051331