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Children and Women's Participation Dynamics: Transitory and Long-Term Effects
Voicu, Alexandru; Buddelmeyer, Hielke - 2003
Children affect the after-birth labor force participation of women in two ways. Directly, the time spent in child-care reduces the labor market effort. The time spent out of the labor market while on maternity leave alters women's participation experience and, thus, indirectly affects subsequent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261954
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Children and Women's Participation Dynamics : Transitory and Long-Term Effects
Voicu, Alexandru; Buddelmeyer, Hielke - 2021
Children affect the after-birth labor force participation of women in two ways. Directly, the time spent in child-care reduces the labor market effort. The time spent out of the labor market while on maternity leave alters women's participation experience and, thus, indirectly affects subsequent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320019
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Mother’s Time Allocation, Child Care and Child Cognitive Development
Brilli, Ylenia - 2022
education and the various impacts of non-parental child care given by the different child care types available in the market …. The results show that mothers with at least some college education are more effective than their less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013308048
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Can women have children and a career? : IV evidence from IVF treatments
Lundborg, Petter; Plug, Erik J. S.; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2018
This paper introduces a new IV strategy based on IVF (in vitro fertilization) induced fertility variation among childless women to estimate the causal effect of having children on their career. For this purpose, we use administrative data on IVF treated women in Denmark. Because observe d...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011824267
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Birth order and child outcomes : does maternal quality time matter?
Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2012
Higher birth order positions are often associated with poorer outcomes, possibly due to fewer resources received within the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are due to unequal allocation of the particular resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731503
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Birth order and child outcomes : does maternal quality time matter?
Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2012
Higher birth order positions are often associated with poorer outcomes, possibly due to fewer resources received within the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are due to unequal allocation of the particular resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009613677
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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
education and wages for the children born under these policies. The mobility effect, chiefly an increase in intergenerational … mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of … education benefit more. As a potential mechanism, we find that the policies increased mothers' time investments in children and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437042
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Life‐cycle and intergenerational effects of child care reforms
Chan, Marc K.; Liu, Kai - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 9 (2018) 2, pp. 659-706
that the reform generates sizable changes in employment and fertility decisions, especially among low‐education women. We …
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Maternal employment and adolescent development
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2005
This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds, controlling for a wide variety of child, mother and family characteristics. The results suggest that limited amounts of work by mothers benefit youths who are relatively disadvantaged and even long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267643
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Three family policies to reconcile fertility and labor supply
Fenge, Robert; Stadler, Lisa - 2014
In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children, the secondary earner's labor supply and welfare....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010388733