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Trust, Child Care Technology Choice and Female Labor Force Participation

El-Attar, Mayssun - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In this paper we test the effect of trust on the choice of child care technology. We estimate individual-level trust as a latent attribute using survey questions on personal attitudes by applying the econometric methodology by Spady (2007). Compared to other measures of trust, using this...

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The Effects of Child Care Provision in Mexico

Calderón, Gabriela - Banco de México - 2014

In 2007, seeking to increase female labor force participation and more generally ease burdens on working women, the Mexican government introduced an enormous expansion of a child care program: Estancias Infantiles para Apoyar a Madres Trabajadoras (EI). EI covers 90 percent approximately of the...

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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women

Furtado, Delia - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …

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Income distribution and macroeconomics revisited: The role of fertility adjustment

Nakagawa, Masao; Sugimoto, Yoshiaki - 2009

This paper develops a theory in which households prepare for future education by adjusting the number of children they intend to raise. Income inequality lowers output per worker only if the inequality is attributed in some part to unexpected disturbances after childbirth.

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Evaluating how child allowances and daycare subsidies affect fertility

Goldstein, Joshua R.; Koulovatianos, Christos; Li, Jian; … - 2017

special attention to estimating how intended fertility (fertility before children are born) responds to these policies. We use … two evaluation tools: (i) a dynamic model on fertility, labor supply, outsourced childcare time, parental time, asset … expenditure to increase fertility to the replacement level might be viewed as prohibitively high. …

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Parasites and Raven Mothers: A German-Japanese Comparison on (Lone) Motherhood

Klabunde, Anna; Korn, Evelyn - 2010

fertility rates that resulted in Germany can be transfered to Japan. …

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The effect of compulsory schooling laws on teenage marriage and births in Turkey

Kirdar, Murat G.; Tayfur, Meltem Dayıoğlu; Koç, İsmet - 2010

and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the …

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The effect of compulsory schooling laws on teenage marriage and births in Turkey

Kirdar, Murat G.; Tayfur, Meltem Dayioglu; Koç, Ismet - 2011

and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the …

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Peer Effects and Fertility Preferences in China: Evidence from the China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey

Nie, Peng; Wang, Lu; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2020

Despite empirical evidence that individuals form their fertility preferences by observing social norms and interactions … China Labor-force Dynamics Survey to investigate the association between community-level peer effects and fertility … fertility reduces the preference of wanting only one child by 14.3%, whereas it increases the probability of preferring three …

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Gene-Environment Effects on Female Fertility

Barban, Nicola; De Cao, Elisabetta; Francesconi, Marco - 2021

Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the …

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