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Can a cash transfer to families change fertility behaviour?

Andersen, Synøve N.; Drange, Nina; Lappegård, Trude - 2015

of a cash-for-care (CFC) policy introduced in Norway in 1998, and compare the fertility behaviour of eligible and … a slower progression to both second and third births, and short term fertility is hence lower in this group. The …

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Family Policies and Fertility: Parents' Parental Leave Use, Childcare Availability, the Introduction of Childcare Cash Benefit and Continued Childbearing in Norway

Lappegård, Trude - 2008

We address the relationship between family policies and fertility in Norway, including three somewhat different … fertility outcomes, there is wide heterogeneity in how they respond to the policies. …

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Effects of policy on fertility: A systematic review of (quasi)experiments

Bergsvik, Janna; Fauske, Agnes; Hart, Rannveig K. - 2020

This paper describes the results of a systematic review of the literature of policy effects on fertility after 1970 in … child transfers and welfare reforms. Childcare and universal transfers seem to have the most positive effects on fertility … (quasi)experimental evaluation. Withdrawing cash transfers to families through welfare reforms has limited fertility effects …

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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 …

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Daddy Months

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2014

We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...

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Family and labor market choices : requirements to guide effective evidence-based policy

Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michał; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2012

assessment of consequences of family related policies in the area of labor market and fertility. We set these models in the … policy making with the aim to reconcile the objectives of increasing female participation and fertility and reducing poverty … levels among families with children. -- microsimulation ; labor supply ; fertility ; evidence-based policy …

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Family and labor market choices : requirements to guide effective evidence-based policy

Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michał; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2012

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Comparative analysis of the motherhood gap in employment and wages : the role of family policies and their interaction

Cukrowska-Torzewska, Ewa - 2016

The paper documents employment and wage gaps, which arise between mothers and childless women, for a set of 28 European countries. The role of family policies in explaining these inequalities is then examined by looking at a single policy as well as childcare and leave policies interaction. The...

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Does parental leave affect fertility and return-to-work? : Evidence from a "true natural experiment"

Lalive, Rafael (contributor); Zweimüller, Josef (contributor) - 2005

We study the causal effects of changes in parental leave provisions on fertility and return-to-work behavior. We … planned children and/or to increase fertility. We study the quantitative effect of this incentive using an empirical strategy … when the child became 18 months old brought about no change in fertility behavior, but a labor supply effect that is …

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Jobs and kids : female employment and fertility in China

Fang, Hai; Eggleston, Karen; Rizzo, John A.; … - In: IZA journal of labor & development 2 (2013), pp. 1-25

affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship … variable to isolate the effect of employment on fertility. Female employment reduces a married woman’s preferred number of …

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