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There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … benefits and tax credits among 'comparable' households. We implement this approach by estimating a discrete choice model of … female participation and fertility, using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and a fairly detailed …
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Conventional wisdom suggests that in developed countries income and fertility are negatively correlated. We present new … evidence that between 2001 and 2009 the cross-sectional relationship between fertility and women's education in the U.S. is U … explaining the positive correlation between fertility and female labor supply along the educational gradient. In our model …
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-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial … portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies …
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This paper reassesses how the costs associated with child care influence Australian families’ decisions about their work and child care arrangements. Using data from the Negotiating the Life Course Survey, we suggest that the cost of care may not be an important barrier to labour market...
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household production and formal child care to the wage rate, the price of child care, taxes, benefits and child care subsidies … is used. The model is estimated using the HILDA dataset, a rich household survey of the Australian population, which …
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population, we restrict our analysis to confined regions along cantonal borders. Using semi-parametric instrumental variable …
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that the effect grows larger as the child grows older and as the family loses eligibility for child benefits. Finally, we …
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this is the case, how tax differences affect the growth rates of population and human capital will depend on the relative …
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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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population growth rates. Corroborative evidence is found for the theoretical results on the convergence/divergence in long …-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 …
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