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The economic impact of taking short parental leave: Evaluation of a French reform

Joseph, Olivier; Pailhé, Ariane; Recotillet, Isabelle; … - In: Labour Economics 25 (2013) C, pp. 63-75

impact of short parental leave on mothers' employment status and subsequent wages, with a special focus on the part … wages of first mothers at the global level. However, for part-time paid leave takers, the reform increases the employment … rate but decreases the subsequent wages. The wages remain lower two years after child birth, especially for the most …

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Does Endogenous Matching Explain the Family Pay Gap? Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Wilner, Lionel - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique … - 2015

Once individual unobserved heterogeneity and human capital depreci- ation have proved not to fully account for wage di erences consecutive to parenthood, a remaining explanation (discrimination aside) could be that parents select into low wage rms. This paper tests that hypothesis by resorting...

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Son Preference and Human Capital Investment Among China’s Rural-Urban Migrant Households

Lin, Carl; Sun, Yan; Xing, Chunbing - 2018

absent for children of preschool age. We also find that (1) boys are more likely to migrate following the reduction in the … number of rural primary schools, (2) migrant households with multiple children tend to take their sons to migrate more than … they take their daughters, and (3) the fact that parents of boy students spend more on their children’s education can be …

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Gender Gaps in Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills: Roles of SES and Gender Attitudes

Hervé, Justine; Mani, Subha; Behrman, Jere R.; Nandi, … - 2021

Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries. This paper uses a unique data set with more than 20,000 adolescents in rural India to examine whether socioeconomic status and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive...

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Are sons and daughters substitutable? : a study of intra-household allocation of resources in contemporary Japan

Ono, Hiroshi - 2000 - Version: February 2003

lies not at the high school level but at the university level. Equal numbers of men and women advance to high school, but a … significantly lower proportion of women advance to four-year universities relative to men. Starting from government statistics which … within the household depending on the gender of their children. From the individuals' perspective, the gender composition of …

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Gender, educational attainment, and the impact of parental migration on children left behind

Antman, Francisca M. - 2012

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes … have no effect on the educational outcomes of children who are at least 20 because they have already completed their …