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children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non … spend more on children, even when they have exactly the same preferences as their husbands. However, this does not …
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Using Norwegian registry data we investigate how paternity leave affects fathers’ long-term earnings. In 1993 Norway introduced a paternity quota of the paid parental leave. We estimate a difference-in-differences model which exploits differences in fathers' exposure to the paternity quota....
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In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents’ incentives to stay home with children … under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long …
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family types. We compare sibling differences in families where the mother enters the labor force when the children are older … out of the labor force during the entirety of her children’s adolescent years. Our identification strategy is, therefore …, in the spirit of traditional difference-in-differences, the first difference pertaining to the differences in children …
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This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low-skilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...
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This paper investigates how mothers’ decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers …
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This paper is inspired by a puzzling empirical fact that despite the importance of controlling migration for their future, the host countries allocate very limited amounts of resources to the struggle against illegal immigration. The present model analyzes this issue in the context of low...
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We investigate the positive and normative consequences of child-labor restrictions foreconomic aggregates and welfare. We argue that even though the laissez-faire outcome maybe inefficient, there are usually better policies to cure these inefficiencies than the impositionof a child-labor ban...
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We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the increased demandfor female labor during World War II. We develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibriummodel with endogenous fertility and female labor-force participation decisions...
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