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Taxing childcare : effects on family labor supply and children

Gathmann, Christina; Saß, Björn - 2012

Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new … and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce informal childcare indicating that public daycare and informal … childcare are complements. Female labor force participation declines and the response is strongest for single parents and low …

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Parental leave benefit and differential fertility responses : evidence from a German reform ; presented at CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, May 2015

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2015

This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefits on fertility. I use the unanticipated reform of 2007 to assess how a move from a means-tested to an earnings-related benefit affects higher-order births. By using data from the Mikrozensus, I find that...

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Fertility, household structure, and parental labor supply : evidence from rural China

Li, Hongbin; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - 2015

labor supply are mitigated by the childcare provided by grandparents. Our results have important implications for population … and public childcare policies. …

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The difficult case of persuading women : experimental evidence from childcare

Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2013

Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other … exposed to two informational treatments on the positive consequences of formal childcare on children future educational …

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Earnings-dependent parental leave benefit and fertility : evidence from Germany ; conference paper

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2013

This paper examines the effects of a major change in German parental transfer system on fertility. I use the largely unanticipated reform of 2007 as a natural experiment to assess how an earnings-dependent parental leave benefit effects higher-order fertility. Given the recent introduction, this...

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Parental benefits and mothers' labor market outcomes in the medium run : conference paper

Kluve, Jochen; Schmitz, Sebastian - 2014 - This version: 1 August 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 smooth- ing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to...

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