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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 single household utility function and potential intra-household disagreement is abstracted from. Empirical evidence suggests, however, that many (potential) mothers and fathers...

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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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Searching for welfare, work and gender equality

Plantenga, Janneke - 2014

The paper describes to which extent European welfare states support an individual adult worker model and how the current policy should be assessed in terms of gender equality. Although a more individual design of welfare policies is clearly recognizable, the paper also illustrates the large gap...

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Can immigrants help women "have it all"? : immigrant labor and women's joint fertility and labor supply decisions

Furtado, Delia - 2014

This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...

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Fertility effects on female labor supply : IV evidence from IVF treatments

Lundborg, Petter; Plug, Erik J. S.; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2014

This paper introduces a new IV strategy based on IVF induced fertility variation in childless families to estimate the causal effect of having children on female labor supply using IVF treated women in Denmark. Because observed chances of IVF success do not depend on labor market histories, IVF...

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Fertility responses of high-skilled native women to immigrant inflows

Furtado, Delia - 2014

childcare industry, this paper examines whether college-educated native women respond to immigrant-induced lower cost and … potentially more convenient childcare options with increased fertility. An analysis of U.S. Census data between 1980 and 2000 … among women who are most likely to consider childcare costs when making fertility decisions - namely, married women with a …

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The effect of early universal daycare on child weight problems : conference paper

Lauber, Verena; Thomas, Lampert - 2014 - Preliminary version

As the number of young children in daycare increases, people start to worry about the effect of early non-parental care. This is of special relevance as investments in the early periods of life are shown to be most important for a child’s long term development. Based on the German national...

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Does early child care help or hurt children's development?

Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - 2014

More children than ever attend center-based care early in life. We study whether children who attend center-based care before age 3 have better or worse language and motor skills, socio-emotional maturity, and school readiness just before entering primary school. In data covering about 36,000...

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Employment protection and parental child care

Olsson, Martin - 2013

I examine if employment protection affects parental childcare. I find that a softer employment protection has a … substantial effect on how parents use and divide paid childcare between them. The identification relies on a reform that made it … total days of parental childcare in targeted firms, measured as total days of parental leave or temporary parental leave …

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The impact of non-parental child care on child development : evidence from the summer participation "dip"

Herbst, Chris M. - 2012

Although a large literature examines the effect of non-parental child care on preschool-aged children's cognitive development, few studies deal convincingly with the potential endogeneity of child care choices. Using a panel of infants and toddlers from the Birth cohort of the Early Childhood...

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