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The determinants of university participation in Canada (1977 - 2003)

Christofides, Louis N.; Hoy, Michael; Yang, Ling - 2008

propensity of children from Canadian families, evident in annual surveys spanning two and a half decades, to attend university …

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The impact of tuition fees and support on university participation in the UK

Dearden, Lorraine; Fitzsimons, Emla; Wyness, Gill - 2011

Understanding how policy can affect university participation is important for understanding how governments can promote human capital accumulation. In this paper, we estimate the separate impacts of tuition fees and maintenance grants on the decision to enter university in the UK. We use Labour...

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Household Responses to Trade Shocks

Irastorza-Fadrique, Aitor; Levell, Peter; Parey, Matthias - 2023

We use large-scale panel data from linked decadal censuses in England and Wales to study the responses of both individuals and their partners to rising Chinese import competition in the 2000s. We test whether partners provide insurance against lost household earnings by increasing labour supply....

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Household responses to trade shocks

Irastorza-Fadrique, Aitor; Levell, Peter; Parey, Matthias - 2023

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No lasting increase in the gender care gap in Germany after the coronavirus pandemic

Jessen, Jonas; Kinne, Lavinia; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW Weekly Report 14 (2024) 9, pp. 75-82

grow even larger. In fact, empirical analyses show that gender differences in care work did increase in young families at …

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Gender Care Gap in Deutschland: Kein anhaltender Anstieg infolge der Corona-Pandemie

Jessen, Jonas; Kinne, Lavinia; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW Wochenbericht 91 (2024) 9, pp. 123-130

Anlässlich des Internationalen Frauentages am 8. März erhalten zahlreiche Ungleichheiten zwischen Frauen und Männern erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit. Insbesondere der Gender Pay Gap, also die geschlechtsspezifische Lohnlücke, die nach Berechnungen des Statistischen Bundesamtes im Jahr 2023 zum...

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Families, Taxes and the Welfare System

Simpson, Nicole B. - 2013

In this paper, I will describe in detail both the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit in the U.S., including their origins, their structure, and the effects they have on the labor market and family formation. I will then discuss the macroeconomic implications of U.S. welfare...

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How families matter for understanding economic inequality

Santos, Cézar; Tertilt, Michele - 2023

In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in … principle be an amplifier or mitigator of economic inequality. We describe three channels on how families shape economic … inequality. First, how people match to form families matters for inequality across families. Second, parental investments in …

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Household responses to trade shocks

Irastorza-Fadrique, Aitor; Levell, Peter; Parey, Matthias - 2024

We study the impact of Chinese import competition in the 2000s on workers and their households in England and Wales. We document both the direct employment changes of individuals affected by trade exposure, as well as the employment response of individuals whose partner is exposed to trade. We...

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A constitutional theory of the family

Cigno, Alessandro - 2005

The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances in which a constitution is renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The...

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