Similar Search Results

Causal analysis of policy effects on fertility

Hart, Rannveig Kaldager; Bergsvik, Janna; Fauske, Agnes; … - 2023

This chapter reviews the literature on the causal effects of policies on fertility. It focuses on evidence from experiments and quasi-experiments in low fertility contexts, including studies from Europe, Northern America, Oceania and Asia. Making no a priori restrictions on policy type, the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014383573

Parental leave benefit and differential fertility responses : evidence from a German reform ; presented at CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, May 2015

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2015

unanticipated reform of 2007 to assess how a move from a means-tested to an earnings-related benefit affects higher-order births. By …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280834

Love your leave, don't leave your love! : paid parental leave and children's living arrangements

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Kühnle, Daniel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017

We examine how a German paid parental leave reform causally affected early childhood living arrangements. The reform replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a shorter period. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that the reform increased the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597822

Do generous parental leave policies help top female earners?

Corekcioglu, Gozde; Francesconi, Marco; Kunze, Astrid - 2020

Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women’s careers around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? Using longitudinal employer-employee matched data for the entire Norwegian...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012223860

The employment of mothers : recent developments and their determinants in East and West Germany

Broadway, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2010

employment differences as East German women with low earnings potentials appear to adopt West German low employment patterns over …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697044

Can financial incentives reduce the baby gap? : evidence from a reform in maternity leave benefits

Raute, Anna - 2017

To assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby gap between high … earnings-dependent maternity leave benefits, which compensate women commensurate with their opportunity cost of childbearing …, could successfully reduce the fertility rate disparity related to mothers' education and earnings. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011721639

Expansions in paid parental leave and mothers' economic progress

Corekcioglu, Gozde; Francesconi, Marco; Kunze, Astrid - 2022

We examine the impact of government-funded universal paid parental leave extensions on the likelihood that mothers reach top-pay jobs and executive positions, using eight Norwegian reforms. Up to a quarter of a century after childbirth, such reforms neither helped nor hurt mothers' chances to be...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013418923

Leave and let leave : workplace peer effects in fathers' take-up of parental leave

Casarico, Alessandra; Di Porto, Edoardo; Kopinska, Joanna; … - 2025

earnings and labor supply. Peer effects are observed also for mothers, but the response of their partners is less pronounced. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015371818

Work and wage dynamics around childbirth

Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - 2012

This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488974

The parenthood penalty in mental health : evidence from Austria and Denmark

Ahammer, Alexander; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Halla, Martin; … - 2023

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014391315