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How important are mental and physical health in career and family choices?

Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - 2024

We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … forms of health on other life dynamics, with better mental health having stronger impacts on marriage and fertility outcomes … employment have long-lasting eects on life decisions, life satisfaction, and income due to their interaction with fertility …

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Effects of parental leave policies on female career and fertility choices

Yamaguchi, Shintaro - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 10 (2019) 3, pp. 1195-1232

This paper constructs and estimates a dynamic discrete choice structural model of female employment and fertility … effects of cash benefits seem modest. Overall, parental leave policies have little effect on fertility. …

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Social norms and mothers’ labor market attachment : the medium-run effects of parental benefits

Kluve, Jochen; Schmitz, Sebastian - 2014

Increasing mothers’ labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smoothing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to...

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The effects of child care provision in Mexico

Calderón, Gabriela - 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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Social norms and mothers' labor market attachment : the medium-run effects of parental benefits

Kluve, Jochen; Schmitz, Sebastian - 2014

Increasing mothers' labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smoothing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to...

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Career breaks after childbirth : the impact of family leave reforms in the Czech Republic

Bičáková, Alena; Kalíčková, Klára - 2016

The Czech Republic is a country with a strong attachment of women to the labor market, but with one of the longest paid family leaves, which is often followed by a spell of unemployment. Using a difference-in-differences methodology, we study the impact of two reforms of the duration of the...

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Female labor supply and child care in France

Choné, Philippe; Le Blanc, David; Robert-Bobée, Isabelle - 2003

We use French household data to estimate a structural model of female labor supply and use of paid child care outside the home. Child care costs are found to have little impact on the labor market participation decision of mothers. The model is used to study various policy issues. The influence...

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In good company : neighborhood quality and female employment

Bechara, Peggy; Eilers, Lea; Paloyo, Alfredo R. - 2015

, wird in diesem Papier der Einfluss der Nachbarschaft auf das individuelle Arbeitsangebot von Frauen untersucht. Aufgrund … mit Nachbarschaftsattributen korreliert ist. Während das extensive Arbeitsangebot besonders stark mit der … durchschnittlichen Beschäftigungsquote von Frauen korreliert ist, wird das intensive Arbeitsangebot durch den Anteil der …

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Causal effects on employment after first birth : a dynamic treatment approach

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin; Steffes, Susanne - 2013

The effects of childbirth on future labor market outcomes are a key issue for policy discussion. This paper implements a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for the case of Germany, a country with a long maternity...

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Child care markets, parental labor supply, and child development

Berlinski, Samuel G.; Ferreira, María M.; Flabbi, Luca; … - 2020

We develop and estimate a model of child care markets that endogenizes both demand and supply. On the demand side, families with a child make consumption, labor supply, and child-care decisions within a static, unitary household model. On the supply side, child care providers make entry, price,...

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