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The Economic Approach to Fertility: A Causal Mediation Analysis
Kashalala, Gauthier T.; Koch, Steven F. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Economic and … - 2014
This study develops an economic fertility model which explicitly incorporates both the costs of childrearing and … planning services and the cost of children in mediating the causal effect of income on fertility, subject to unmeasurable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095460
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Identifying causal mechanisms in experiments (primarily) based on inverse probability weighting
Huber, Martin - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2012
This paper demonstrates the identification of causal mechanisms in experiments with a binary treatment, (primarily) based on inverse probability weighting. I.e., we consider the average indirect effect of the treatment, which operates through an intermediate variable (or mediator) that is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010676250
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Evaluating how child allowances and daycare subsidies affect fertility
Goldstein, Joshua R.; Koulovatianos, Christos; Li, Jian; … - 2017 - This version: January 31, 2017
special attention to estimating how intended fertility (fertility before children are born) responds to these policies. We use … two evaluation tools: (i) a dynamic model on fertility, labor supply, outsourced childcare time, parental time, asset … expenditure to increase fertility to the replacement level might be viewed as prohibitively high. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603561
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Occupational match quality and gender over two cohorts
Addison, John T.; Liwen, Chen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2018
Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality differences among more educated individuals....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931469
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Maternity leave
Regmi, Krishna; Wang, Le - 2022
development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414165
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How to avoid a pension crisis : a question of intelligent system design
Cigno, Alessandro - 2009
Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936144
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Do joint custody laws improve family well-being? : joint child custody laws affect not only divorced families but intact families as well
Halla, Martin - 2015
Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically since the 1970s. Traditionally, one parent - usually the mother - was assigned sole custody of the child. Today, many divorced parents continue to share parental rights and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430740
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Household relational contracts for marriage, fertility and divorce
Fahn, Matthias; Rees, Ray - 2014
among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010363961
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Daddy months
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2014
We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010422205
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Intrahousehold decision making and fertility
Doepke, Matthias; Kindermann, Fabian - 2014
The economic theory of fertility choice builds predominantly on the unitary model of the household, in which there is a … bear on fertility choice, and we point out promising future directions for this line of research. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010458481