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We formalize and estimate the dynamic marginal efficiency cost of redistribution (MECR) in the spirit of Okun’s “leaky bucket” to compare the MECR of an income-contingent childcare subsidy program and of the income-contingent tax and transfer schedule. We set up a dynamic structural model...
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We formalize and estimate the dynamic marginal efficiency cost of redistribution (MECR) in the spirit of Okun’s “leaky bucket”. We analyze the MECR of an income-contingent childcare subsidy program and the income tax within the German context, using a dynamic structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014435203
This paper investigates the impact of workplace breastfeeding laws on the labor supply of mothers. We exploit a unique setting, when throughout 1998-2009 states in the US introduced laws requiring employers to provide break time and a private room for women to express milk or breastfeed. Our...
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In this paper I study the causal relationship between fertility and female labor supply using census data from 14 Latin …-balanced family (mixed-sex children) is exploited as a source of exogenous variation in fertility. Although OLS estimates suggest a … sibling sex composition on fertility. The noisy and imprecise IV estimates for Latin America in the second-stage can be …
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German family policy underwent a reform in 2007, when the new instrument of "Elterngeld" replaced the previous "Erziehungsgeld". The transfer programs differ in various dimensions. We study the effects on the labor supply of young mothers, by comparing behavior before and after the reform. We...
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We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten …
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grandparent-provided child care affects fertility and labor force participation of women positively. However, grandparent … provide child care. We build a model of residence choice, fertility, and female labor force participation that can account for … level, fertility and mothers' labor force participation would increase, while mobility would remain unchanged. The absence …
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-in-difference design and a fertility survey with information on conception, contraception, and labor supply arrangements. Childcare …. In a country with the lowest total fertility rate in the world and that often performs middling in rankings of gender …
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This paper studies the effects of a father quota in the parental leave period on households' labor market and fertility … leave delayed higher-order births and reduced subsequent fertility among older women (by about 15%). These results suggest a …
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adolescent pregnancy rates are high. Little empirical evidence exists concerning the relationship between teen fertility and the … of fertility and labor market outcomes, we instrument the timing of first birth using young women's community …
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