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Dimova, Ralitza D. - 2014

We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We start by developing a theoretical background based on Basu and Van, (1998), Basu, (1999) and Epstein and Kahana (2008) and show how hiring labor from outside the household and...

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The Effect of Emigration on Child Labor

Epstein, Gil S. - 2009

We present a general model of child labor that incorporates the various components presented in the literature as explanations for its existence. Our proposal is to mitigate the phenomenon by encouraging temporary emigration. It emerges that the remittances sent by the emigrating parents might...

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Bayesian treatment effects models with variable selection for panel outcomes with an application to earnings effects of maternity leave

Jacobi, Liana; Wagner, Helga; Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia - 2014

Child birth leads to a break in a woman's employment history and is considered one reason for the relatively poor labor market outcomes observed for women compared to men. However, the time spent at home after child birth varies significantly across mothers and is likely driven by observed and,...

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Parents with an unemployed adult child : consumption, income, and savings effects

Edwards, Kathryn Anne; Wenger, Jeffrey B. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 8 (2019) 1, pp. 1-44

The risk of labor market, health, and asset-value shocks comprise profound retirement savings challenges for older workers. Parents, however, may experience added risk if their children experience adverse labor market shocks. Prior research has shown that parents support their children...

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Equity and efficiency of childcare subsidies : a dynamic structural approach

Koll, David; Sachs, Dominik; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian; … - 2023

We formalize and estimate the dynamic marginal efficiency cost of redistribution (MECR) in the spirit of Okun’s “leaky bucket”. We analyze the MECR of an income-contingent childcare subsidy program and the income tax within the German context, using a dynamic structural...

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Early labor market prospects and family formation

Engdahl, Mattias; Godard, Mathilde; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2018

We use quasi-random variation in graduation years during the onset of a very deep national recession to study the relationship between early labor market conditions and young females' family formation outcomes. A policy-pilot affecting the length of upper-secondary education in Swedish...

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Quantifying Okun's leaky bucket : the case of progressive childcare subsidies

Koll, David; Sachs, Dominik; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian; … - 2024

We formalize and estimate the dynamic marginal efficiency cost of redistribution (MECR) in the spirit of Okun’s “leaky bucket” to compare the MECR of an income-contingent childcare subsidy program and of the income-contingent tax and transfer schedule. We set up a dynamic structural model...

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How important are mental and physical health in career and family choices?

Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - 2024

We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly incorporates mental and physical health. Correlated mental and physical health production functions are simultaneously estimated, including the endogenous decisions to seek...

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Partial insurance and investments in children

Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2015

partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …

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Partial insurance and investments in children

Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2012

partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, and we cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance … 10% of family income leads, at most, to an increase in investments of 1.3% of a standard deviation. -- insurance ; human …

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