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This study examines the effect of two recent parental leave reforms in Austria that allow parents to choose leave schemes with varying duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that the introduction of more flexible scheme choices led mothers to take, on average, 1-2 months less...
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Despite changing gender norms, few fathers decide to take parental leave after the birth of a child, and when they do, their leave spells are substantially shorter compared to mothers. This study examines how paternal leave-taking is affected by two key features of leave policies: flexibility in...
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of women and men without children across cohorts, and at different points of their life cycle. There is wide variation …
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The paper describes to which extent European welfare states support an individual adult worker model and how the current policy should be assessed in terms of gender equality. Although a more individual design of welfare policies is clearly recognizable, the paper also illustrates the large gap...
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of women and men without children across cohorts, and at different points of their life cycle. There is wide variation …
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We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility and mothers' labor market outcomes, we take advantage...
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This paper documents some distinct and surprising patterns of specialization among new parents in the NLSY79. Child gender has significant effects on the labor supply of both mothers and father, and these effects are opposite at the two ends of the education spectrum boys reduce specialization...
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, higher returns to male children's human capital, and higher costs of raising male children are hypothesized to explain this … show that a different institutional setting may make men respond to their children's gender differently. We study men …'s income in a dotal society, Iran, where families were expected to provide dowry for their marrying daughters. We show that, in …
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This paper documents some distinct and surprising patterns of specialization among new parents in the NLSY79. Child gender has significant effects on the labor supply of both mothers and father, and these effects are opposite at the two ends of the education spectrum - boys reduce specialization...
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countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child …
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