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Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to engage in unpaid work, and to marry and have children, is formulated as a forward-looking discrete choice dynamic programming problem. Simulated maximum likelihood estimates of...

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Assessing the Impact of the Maternity Capital Policy in Russia Using a Dynamic Model of Fertility and Employment

Slonimczyk, Fabian; Yurko, Anna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

With declining population and fertility rates below replacement levels, Russia is currently facing a demographic crisis … model of fertility and labor force participation in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the policy. We find that the … program increased long-run fertility by about 0.15 children per woman. …

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Female Labor Supply and Parental Leave Benefits: The Causal Effect of Paying Higher Transfers for a Shorter Period of Time

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten …

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Causal Effects on Employment after First Birth: A Dynamic Treatment Approach

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin; Steffes, Susanne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The effects of childbirth on future labor market outcomes are a key issue for policy discussion. This paper implements a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for the case of Germany, a country with a long maternity...

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The Relationship between Hours of Domestic Services and Female Earnings: Panel Register Data Evidence from a Reform

Halldén, Karin; Stenberg, Anders - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In 2007, a tax discount reform in Sweden reduced prices of outsourced domestic services (ODS) by 50 percent. Unlike most previous studies, population register data enable us to directly link a proxy for relaxed time constraints, annual changes in households' tax discounts, to changes in...

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Ora et non Labora? A Test of the Impact of Religion on Female Labor Supply

Pastore, Francesco; Tenaglia, Simona - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper examines the influence of religion on female participation to the labor market using data relative to women aged between 18 and 60 years in 47 European countries drawn from the European Values Study (EVS). We investigate the determinants of the probability of being employed rather...

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Fertility Effects on Female Labor Supply: IV Evidence from IVF Treatments

Lundborg, Petter; Plug, Erik; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper introduces a new IV strategy based on IVF induced fertility variation in childless families to estimate the … IV estimates indicate that fertility effects are: (a) negative, large and long lasting; (b) much stronger at the …

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Social Norms and Mothers' Labor Market Attachment: The Medium-Run Effects of Parental Benefits

Kluve, Jochen; Schmitz, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 smoothing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to...

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Maternity Leave and the Responsiveness of Female Labor Supply to a Household Shock

Tominey, Emma - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Female labor supply can insure households against shocks to paternal employment. The paper estimates whether the female labor supply response to a paternal employment shock differs by eligibility to maternity employment protection. We exploit time-state variation in the implementation of unpaid...

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Joint Estimation of Sequential Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques

Troske, Kenneth R.; Voicu, Alexandru - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

decisions for four levels of labor market involvement and fertility decisions are jointly modeled. We allow decisions to be …

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