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feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility … fertility of the childless and highly educated women. -- Employment ; fertility ; financial incentives …In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal …
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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...
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German panel data, we test whether the availability of broadband Internet influences fertility choices in a low-fertility …. (2014) to obtain causal estimates of the impact of broadband on fertility. We find positive effects of high-speed Internet … availability on the fertility of high-educated women aged 25 and above. Effects are not statistically significant both for men, low …
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for a trading population, extending the results in Saint-Paul (2002) for arbitrary systems of sexual reproduction …
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This paper examines how the public policy environment in the United States affects work by new mothers following childbirth. We examine four types of policies that vary across states and affect the budget constraint in different ways. The policy environment has important effects, particularly...
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Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...
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-low fertility and female labor force participation rates. This paper analyzes the effects of a large-scale provision of publicly …
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to poorer households and improving work incentives, 2) the trade-off between improving work incentives for first and for … second earners in couples, 3) the trade-off between improving work incentives for those facing strong and weak incentives in … poverty, low female employment and one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe. We demonstrate the complexity of potential …
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employment incentives for secondary earners. This in turn reduces the potential of in-work support to address the joint …
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, mothers and fathers. We find strong short term effects of incentives on male parental leave. However, we find no learning … sick children, which is our measure for household work. -- natural experiment ; family benefits ; gender and labor … ; incentives …
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