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We study the impact on road safety of one-day massive speed limit monitoring operations (SLMO) accompanied by media …
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the distance to school, their safety when commuting to school, lack of agency, and deep-rooted cultural norms. In Zambia …
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We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a...
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Women tend to experience substantial declines in their labor income after their first child is born, while men do not …. Do such "child penalties" also exist in the political arena? Using extensive administrative data from Norway and an event …-study methodology, we find that women drop out of local politics to a larger extent than men after their first child is born. Parenthood …
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We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to … increase the child's cognitive and non-cognitive skills within a Markov Perfect Equilibrium framework. In addition to time and … money investments in their child, parents also choose whether to use explicit incentives to increase the child's self …
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Using Austrian and Danish administrative data, we examine the impacts of parenthood on mental health. Parenthood imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant prescriptions of about 93.2% (Austria) and 64.8% (Denmark). These...
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This paper examines possible spillover effects of parental unemployment on the subjective wellbeing of 12- to 21-year-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their children's life satisfaction. When controlling...
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In 2015, 15% of all children in China were left behind in the countryside because at least one of their parents migrated to a city. We implement an event study analysis between 2010 and 2018 on five waves of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) to investigate the dynamic effects of parental...
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insurance, and financial incentives such as child transfers. Childcare expansions increase completed fertility. Financial … child care programs have potential to reduce social inequalities. …
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“Right to Buy” (RTB) was a large-scale UK housing policy whereby incumbent tenants in public housing could buy their properties at heavily subsidised prices. The policy increased the national homeownership rate by over 10 percentage points between 1980 and the late 1990s. A key feature of...
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