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Parental leave benefit and differential fertility responses: Evidence from a German reform
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2013
This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefit scheme on fertility. I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010378292
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Employment protection and fertility: Evidence from the 1990 Italian reform
Prifti, Ervin; Vuri, Daniela - 2012
The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of … positive and sizable effect on fertility decisions of Italian working women. This result is robust to a number of checks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281932
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Employment protection and fertility : evidence from the 1990 Italian reform
Prifti, Ervin; Vuri, Daniela - 2012
The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of … positive and sizable effect on fertility decisions of Italian working women. This result is robust to a number of checks … use of an alternative set of exclusion restrictions. -- fertility ; employment protection ; difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535120
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The quantity and quality of children : a semi-parametric Bayesian IV approach
Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Halla, Martin; Posekany, … - 2014
Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children builds on exogenous variation in family size due to twin births and focuses on human capital outcomes. The typical finding can be described as a statistically nonsignificant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346050
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The quantity and quality of children : a semi-parametric Bayesian IV approach
Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Halla, Martin; Posekany, … - 2014
Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children builds on exogenous variation in family size due to twin births and focuses on human capital outcomes. The typical finding can be described as a statistically nonsignificant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354544
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The quantity and quality of children : a semi-parametric Bayesian IV approach
Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Halla, Martin; Posekany, … - 2014
Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children builds on exogenous variation in family size due to twin births and focuses on human capital outcomes. The typical finding can be described as a statistically nonsignificant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257598
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Child costs and the causal effect of fertility on female labor supply : an investigation for Indonesia 1993 - 2008
Priebe, Jan - 2010
Over the last two decades Indonesia has experienced a signifcant decline in fertility rates and substantial increases … changes in fertility. The empirical analysis is performed using annual data from the national household survey Susenas for the …. Therefore, reductions in fertility rates seem to have led to two opposing effects that contributed to aggregate levels of female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339415
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The stress cost of children
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wooden, Mark - 2015
We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how demographic events affect perceived time and financial stress. Consistent with the view of measures of stress as proxies for the Lagrangean multipliers in models of household production,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472536
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The Baby Boom, Baby Busts, and the Role of Grandmothers in Childcare
Goksel, Turkmen - 2014
assistance. As such, availability of grandmothers affects the cost of having children, and hence fertility decisions of young … parents. In this paper, we develop a simple model to assess the fertility implications of the fluctuations in both output (as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068748
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The Consequences of Abortion and Contraception Policies on Young Women's Reproductive Choices, Schooling and Labor Supply
Amador, Diego - 2017
I specify a dynamic life-cycle model of abortion, contraceptive use, schooling, and labor supply decisions of US women. I structurally estimate the model, allowing for abortion misreporting, using data from the NLSY97, aggregate abortion provider data from the Guttmacher Institute, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954153