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The Economic Consequences of Family Policies : Lessons from a Century of Legislation in High-Income Countries

Olivetti, Claudia - 2017

at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with …

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Child Penalties Across Countries : Evidence and Explanations

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen - 2019

This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...

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The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Leave : Exploiting Forty Years of U.S. Policy Variation

Flores, Andrea M.; Gayle, George-Levi; Hincapié, Andrés - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on … find that the policies exacerbated the motherhood penalty in labor market outcomes and that they affected fertility choices …

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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 … fertility up to 5 years post reform. In addition to demonstrating an up to 22% increase in the fertility of tertiary educated … versus low educated women, I find a positive, statistically significant effect of increased benefits on fertility, driven …

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Does Paid Sick Leave Facilitate Reproductive Choice?

Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Popovici, Ioana; Ruhm, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Unlike most advanced countries, the U.S. does not have a federal paid sick leave (PSL) policy; however, multiple states have adopted PSL mandates. PSL can facilitate healthcare use among women of child-bearing ages, including use of family planning services such as contraception, in-vitro...

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The Gender Gap, Fertility, and Growth

Galor, Oded - 1993

This paper examines a novel mechanism linking fertility and growth. Household fertility is determined by relative wages … of women and men. Increasing women's wages reduces fertility by raising the cost of children relatively more than … household income. Lower fertility raises the level of capital per worker which in turn, since capital is more complementary to …

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Families, Labor Markets, and Policy

Albanesi, Stefania; Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

earnings, marriage delay and the accompanying decline in fertility, and the large remaining gaps in labor market outcomes …

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Why Did Gender Wage Convergence in the United States Stall?

Blair, Peter Q.; Posmanick, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

During the 1980s, the wage gap between white women and white men in the US declined by approximately 1 percentage point per year. In the decades since, the rate of gender wage convergence has stalled to less than one-third of its previous value. An outstanding puzzle in economics is "why did...

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Parental Leave : Economic Incentives and Cultural Change

Albrecht, James W.; Edin, Per-Anders; Fernández, Raquel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

2002, with the goal of increasing gender equality, Sweden added a second "daddy month," i.e., an additional month of pay …

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When Dad Can Stay Home : Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health

Persson, Petra - 2019

While workplace flexibility is perceived to be a key determinant of maternal labor supply, less is known about fathers' demand for flexibility or about intra-household spillover effects of flexibility initiatives. This paper examines these issues in the context of a critical period in family...

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