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Competitively elected women as policy makers

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2019

Bavaria. Exploiting an open-list electoral system, we run RDD regressions centered around mixed-gender races for the last … council seat that accrues to a party. We find that a female victory in a mixed-gender race accelerates the expansion of public …

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Mothers' care : reversing early childhood health shocks through parental investments

Bellés-Obrero, Cristina; Cabrales, Antonio; … - 2019

We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son's of affected parents at delivery. Yet, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are...

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Gender bias in tax systems based on household income

Andrienko, Jurij; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014

The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model...

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The Long and Short of it : Maternity Leave Coverage and Women's Labor Market Outcomes

Hashimoto, Masanori; Percy, Richard; Schoellner, Teresa; … - 2021

We investigate the effects of maternity leave coverage on women's post-birth wages, job tenure, and labor market attachment. We pay particular attention to unobservable characteristics that are correlated with maternity leave coverage and that affect labor market outcomes. We use a control...

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Baby Steps : The Gender Division of Childcare During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Sevilla, Almudena - 2020

share, but overall, the gender childcare gap (the difference between the share of childcare done by women and the share done …The COVID19 pandemic has caused shocks to the demand for home childcare (with the closure of schools and nurseries) and … the supply of home childcare (with many people not working). We collect real-time data on daily lives to document that UK …

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Investigating the desperate housewives : using gender-role attitudes to explain women's employment decision in twenty-three European countries

Henau, Jerome De (contributor) - 2007

This paper analyses the impact of a set of gender-role attitudes on the labour market situation of women with and … effect of egalitarian attitudes in countries with lower subsidised childcare provision. These results refine the discussion … on the effect of work/life balance policies in Europe. -- gender-role attitudes ; social policies ; dual-earner couples …

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Does the child penalty strike twice

Gørtz, Mette; Sander, Sarah; Sevilla, Almudena - 2020

's labor market outcomes decline at a steeper rate than men's after the arrival of the first grandchild. We find gender gaps in …

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The Glorified Mothers of Sons : Evidence from Sex Composition and Parental Time Allocation in Rural China

Fan, Yi; Yi, Junjian; Yuan, Ye; Zhang, Junsen - 2022

We study the effects of sons versus daughters on parental joint time allocation between thelabor market and the household. Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Surveyfrom 1989 to 2006, we apply a fixed-effects model to control for cross-household hetero-geneity in son preference. We...

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Essential Work and Emergency Childcare : Identifying Gender Differences in Covid-19 Effects on Labour Demand and Supply

Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H.J; Kalb, Guyonne R.J - 2021

data on all Dutch employees up to 30 June 2020, focussing on the national lockdown and the emergency childcare for … as others, irrespective of gender and spousal employment. Third, single-parent essential workers experience relatively … large negative labour supply effects, suggesting emergency childcare was not sufficient for this group. However, overall …

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Essential work and emergency childcare : identifying gender differences in COVID-19 effects on labour demand and supply

Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Kalb, Guyonne - 2020

data on all Dutch employees up to 30 June 2020, focusing on the national lockdown and the emergency childcare for essential …, irrespective of gender and spousal employment. Third, singleparent essential workers experience relatively large negative labour … supply effects, suggesting emergency childcare was not sufficient for this group. However, overall, labour demand effects …

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