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Reducing the Child Penalty by Incentivizing Maternal Part-Time Work?

Baertsch, Laurenz; Sandner, Malte - 2024

Worldwide governments discuss how to increase maternal labor market participation and to reduce the child penalty, i.e. labor market earnings losses after child birth. This study analyses the long run effects of a German paid parental leave reform, which aims to increase maternal labour market...

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Reducing the child penalty by incentivizing maternal part-time work?

Baertsch, Laurenz; Sandner, Malte - 2024

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014580734

Can Reduced Child Support Make Joint Custody Bad for Children? The Role of Economic Incentives in U.S. Divorce Law on Child Outcomes

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel - 2019

This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child … support as those without custody. Merging family and child data from the SIPP with state-level data on economic incentives for … joint custody, we find that fathers' joint custody decisions are significantly affected by the incentives generated by …

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Can reduced child support make joint custody bad for children? : the role of economic incentives in U.S. divorce law on child outcomes

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer; Sun, Hugette - 2018

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The fertility-sex ratio trade-off : unintended consequences of financial incentives

Anukriti, S - 2014

-selection is easily accessible. This paper investigates whether financial incentives can overcome this trade-off in the context of … where the effects of incentives are determined by the strength of son preference, the cost of children, and the cost of sex …-selection, relative to the size of incentives. Second, I create a woman-year panel dataset from retrospective birth histories and use …

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Pension wealth and maternal employment : evidence from a reform of the German child care pension benefit

Thiemann, Andreas - 2015 - Ausgabebezeichnung

This paper uses administrative data to investigate how a change in pension wealth affects a mother’s employment decision after child birth. I exploit the extension of the child care pension benefit in 1992 as a natural experiment in a regression discontinuity design to estimate short- and...

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Born this way : the effect of an unexpected child benefit at birth on longer-term educational outcomes

Sánchez-Coll, Sergi - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 14 (2023) 1, pp. 105-141

Aiming to boost fertility rates, in 2007 the Spanish government implemented a universal €2500 baby bonus paid to mothers giving birth or adopting a child, leading to a short-lived increase in births. In this study, I measure the causal impact that the transfer had on the language and...

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Economic incentives and long-term sickness absence : the indirect effect of replacement rates on absence behavior

Nilsson, Martin - 2015

Reductions in SI replacement levels has been a widely used instrument to lower sickness absence rates. The idea is that increasing the direct cost of absence would lower the absence rate. This paper explores a reform to the compulsory Swedish SI that meant that the replacement rate varied over...

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Forward-looking moral hazard in social insurance : evidence from a natural experiment

Eliason, Marcus; Johansson, Per-Olov; Nilsson, Martin - 2018

This study tests for forward-looking moral hazard in the social insurance system by exploiting a 1991 reform in Sweden. The replacement rate was reduced for short absences but not for long absences, which introduced a potential future cost of returning to work. Using this exogenous variation in...

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Parental leave : a policy evaluation of the Swedish "Daddy-Month" reform

Ekberg, John; Eriksson, Rickard; Friebel, Guido - In: Journal of public economics 97 (2013) 1, pp. 131-143

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