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Albanesi, Stefania; Olivetti, Claudia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Until the early decades of the 20th century, women spent more than 60% of their prime-age years either pregnant or nursing. Since then, the introduction of infant formula reduced women's comparative advantage in infant care, by providing an effective breast milk substitute. In addition, improved...

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The Career Costs of Children

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Stevens, Katrien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

unearned wages (as women drop out of the labor market), loss of human capital, and selection into more child …

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After-school care and parents’ labor supply

Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Thiemann, Petra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Does after-school care provision promote mothers’ employment and balance the allocation of paid work among parents of schoolchildren? We address this question by exploiting variation in cantonal (state) regulations of after-school care provision in Switzerland. To establish exogeneity of...

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Public School Availability for Two-year Olds and Mothers' Labour Supply

Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

French children start public school either the year they turn two or the year they turn three. We evaluate the impact of this unique schooling policy on maternal labour supply. Using a Regression-discontinuity design, we show that early school availability has a significant employment effect on...

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Convergence in Growth Rates: The Role of Capital Mobility and International Taxation

Razin, Assaf; Yuen, Chi-Wa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

-term income growth rates. Under perfect capital mobility, international differences in taxes will not matter for total growth …

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Child Care Provision: Semiparametric Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mexico.

Dubois, Pierre; Rubio-Codina, Marta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We semiparametrically estimate the impact of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program Oportunidades on the time mothers and older sisters spend taking care of children aged under 3, using the randomization of the program placement and the methodology in Lewbel (2000). Results support the...

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Convergence in Growth Rates: A Quantitative Assessment of the Role of Capital Mobility and International Taxation

Razin, Assaf; Yuen, Chi-Wa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

-term population, per capita and total income growth rates obtained in Razin and Yuen (1992). In particular, the data (and casual … observation) show: (1) that population growth and per capita income growth are negatively correlated across countries; (2) that … the total income growth rates are less variable than the per capita income growth rates across countries; and (3) that …

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Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives?

Laroque, Guy; Salanié, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

level. We put forward an identification strategy that relies on the fact that variation of wages induces variation in …

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Women's Employment Transitions Around Childbearing

Dex, Shirley; Joshi, Heather; Macran, Susan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

The dynamics of women’s labour supply are examined at a crucial stage of the life-cycle. This paper uses the longitudinal employment history records for 3,893 33-year-old mothers in the 5th sweep of the 1958 National Child Development Study cohort. Models of binary recurrent events are...

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Do Highly Educated Women Choose Smaller Families?

Hazan, Moshe; Zoabi, Hosny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Conventional wisdom suggests that in developed countries income and fertility are negatively correlated. We present new …

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