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Cracking under pressure? : gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in times of a pandemic

Danzer, Natalia; Huebener, Mathias; Pape, Astrid; … - 2021

suggest that the pandemic not only affected the short-term allocation of housework and childcare, but also reversed recent …

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This time it's different: the role of women's employment in a pandemic recession

Alon, Titan; Doepke, Matthias; Olmstead-Rumsey, Jane; … - 2020

employment is concentrated in heavily affected sectors such as restaurants, and due to increased childcare needs caused by school … macroeconomic model featuring heterogeneity in gender, marital status, childcare needs, and human capital. Our quantitative analysis … weakening of the gender norms that currently produce a lopsided distribution of the division of labor in home work and childcare. …

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Bargaining over babies : theory, evidence, and policy implications

Doepke, Matthias; Kindermann, Fabian - 2016

It takes a woman and a man to make a baby. This fact suggests that for a birth to take place, the parents should first agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are likely to arrive only if both parents desire one, and...

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Parental labour supply responses to the abolition of day care fees

Huebener, Mathias; Pape, Astrid; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2019

This paper provides evidence that low private contributions to highly subsidised day care constrain mothers from working longer hours. We study the effects of a reform that abolished day care fees in Germany on parental labour supply. The reform removed private contributions to highly subsidised...

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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 well-being in times of COVID-19 in Germany

Huebener, Mathias; Waights, Sevrin; Spieß, C. Katharina; … - 2020

We examine the differential effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a "disruptive exogenous shock" to family life. We make use of a novel...

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From mancession to shecession: women's employment in regular and pandemic recessions

Alon, Titan; Coskun, Sena; Doepke, Matthias; Koll, David; … - 2021

show that both the composition of women's employment across industries and occupations as well as increased childcare needs … childcare and experienced greater productivity reductions than men. We discuss what our findings imply for gender equality in a …

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