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Parental Leave Policies and Parents' Employment and Leave-Taking

Ruhm, Christopher; Han, Wen-Jui; Waldfogel, Jane - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Utilizing data from the June Current Population Survey (CPS) Fertility Supplement merged with data from other months of …

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Is Marriage Always Good for Children? Evidence from Families Affected by Incarceration

Neumark, David; Finlay, Keith - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

One-third of children in the United States are born to unmarried parents. A substantial number of black and Hispanic children live with a never-married mother. Children of never-married mothers are more likely to drop out of high school, repeat grades, and have behavioral problems than are...

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The Cost of Caring for Young Children

Rosenbaum, Dan T.; Ruhm, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

This study examines the "cost burden" of child care, defined as day care expenses divided by after-tax income. Data are from the wave 10 core and child care topical modules to the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation. We estimate that the average child under six years of age lives in...

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The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit

Dahl, Gordon B.; Lochner, Lance - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...

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Reexamining the Impact of Family Planning Programs on U.S. Fertility: Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X

Bailey, Martha J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

-term effects on U.S. fertility rates. I find that the introduction of family planning is associated with significant and persistent … reductions in fertility driven both by falling completed childbearing and childbearing delay. Although federally-funded family … planning accounted for a small portion of the post-baby boom U.S. fertility decline, the estimates imply that they reduced …

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The Effect of Interventions to Reduce Fertility on Economic Growth

Weil, David; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Wilde, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous reductions in fertility on output per capita. Our simulation model … quantitative macroeconomic theory. We apply the model to examine the effect of a change in fertility from the UN medium-variant to …

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The Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers' Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes

Ruhm, Christopher; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Waldfogel, Jane - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

This analysis uses March Current Population Survey data from 1999-2010 and a differences-in-differences approach to examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following childbirth, as well as subsequent labor market outcomes. We...

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The Child and Adult Care Food Program: Who is Served and What are Their Nutritional Outcomes?

Kaestner, Robert; Gordon, Rachel A.; Korenman, Sanders; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This paper addresses three basic questions about an under-studied food subsidy program, the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP): (1) Does CACFP reach targeted low-income children? (2) How do eligible families and child care providers who participate differ from those who do not...

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Jobs and Kids: Female Employment and Fertility in Rural China

Eggleston, Karen Nisa; Zeckhauser, Richard; Fang, Hai; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship … prospects affect fertility. Then a well-validated instrumental variable isolates this effect. Female employment reduces a …

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Family Planning: Program Effects

Miller, Grant; Babiarz, Kimberly Singer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

-income countries. In doing so, it focuses on fertility outcomes (the number and timing of births), women's health and socio … programs may only explain a small share of fertility decline in real-world settings. Family planning programs may also have …

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