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The Excess Demand for Subsidized Child Care in Germany

Wrohlich, Katharina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The extension of subsidized child care is currently on top of the political agenda in Germany. In this paper the excess demand for subsidized child care slots is estimated using a partial observability model in the style of Abowd and Farber (1982). The results show that more than 50 percent of...

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How Do Parents Raise the Educational Attainment of Future Generations?

Plug, Erik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

The problem with most intergenerational mobility estimates is that unmeasured and inherited abilities prevent us from drawing inferences. In this paper we estimate the intergenerational mobility of schooling and exploit differences between adopted and own birth children to obtain genetically...

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Handedness, Time Use and Early Childhood Development

Johnston, David W.; Shah, Manisha; Shields, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We test if there is a differential in early child development by handedness, using a comprehensive range of measures covering, learning, social, cognitive and language skills, evaluated by both interviewer conducted tests and teacher assessments. We find robust evidence that left-handed children...

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International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. We provide a rigorous test of the diffusion of fertility norms using …

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The Liberalisation of Maternity Leave Policy and the Return to the Work of Childbirth in Germany

Ondrich, Jan; Spiess, Katharina C.; Yang, Qing; Wagner, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998

German federal law has increased the potential duration of maternity leave five times since 1985. A theoretical model is presented that demonstates that the return to work hazard rate declines a potential increases and the cumulative return probability a potential duration cannot decline unless...

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Pre-School Enrollment: An Analysis by Immigrant Generation

Chiswick, Barry R.; DebBurman, Noyna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

There has been minimal research on the pre-school enrollment of immigrant children. Using 1990 U.S. Census data, this paper investigates pre-school enrollment of child immigrants, those who immigrated as children and the U.S.-born children of immigrants. The analysis is conducted using probit...

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The Influence of Market Wages and Parental History on Child Labour and Schooling in Egypt

Wahba, Jackline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper examines the influence of adult market wages and having parents who were child labourers on child labour, when this decision is jointly determined with child schooling, using data from Egypt. The empirical results suggest that low adult market wages are key determinants of child...

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A Portrait of Child Poverty in Germany

Corak, Miles; Fertig, Michael; Tamm, Marcus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper offers a descriptive portrait of income poverty among children in Germany between the early 1980s and 2001, with a focus on developments since unification in 1991. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are used to estimate poverty rates, rates of entry to and exit from poverty,...

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The Effect of Family Income During Childhood on Later-Life Attainment: Evidence from Germany

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Schluter, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a good indicator of their lifetime socioeconomic attainment. By contrast with several US child outcome studies, we find that late-childhood income is a more important determinant...

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Do Family Planning Programmes Help Women’s Employment? The Case of Indian Mothers

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Francavilla, Francesca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The paper deals with female employment in developing countries. We set out a model to test our argument that, at the first stage of development, demographic and health programmes have proven to be more effective for women’s position in the society than specific labour and income support...

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