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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 …

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Educational expansion and income distribution. A Micro-Simulation for Ceará

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Leite, Phillippe George - 2002

Does more education really mean less poverty and less inequality? How much less? What are the transmission mechanisms … inequality. These results are highly dependent on assumptions about the behaviour of returns to education, both for the … more education operates through greater incentives for labour force participation among the poor, and through reductions in …

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The EITC and maternal time use : more time working and less time with kids?

Bastian, Jacob; Lochner, Lance - 2020

Parents spend considerable time and resources investing in their children's development. Given evidence that the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) affects maternal labor supply, we investigate how the EITC affects a broad array of time-use activities, focusing on the amount and nature of time...

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The earned income tax credit and maternal time use: more time working and less time with kids?

Bastian, Jacob; Lochner, Lance - 2020

Parents spend considerable sums investing in their children's development, with their own time among the most important forms of investment. Given well-documented effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on maternal labor supply, it is natural to ask how the EITC affects other time...

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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women : as immigration lowers childcare and housework costs, nativie-born women alter their work and fertility decisions

Furtado, Delia - 2015

Many countries are reviewing immigration policy, focusing on wage and employment effects for workers whose jobs may be threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is particularly relevant to policies for dealing...

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Cutting fertility? : the effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply

Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016 - First version: May 2, 2016

The incidence of Cesarean deliveries (CDs) has been on the rise. The procedure's cost and benefits are discussed controversially; in particular, since non-medically indicated cases seem widespread. We study the effect of CDs on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is...

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Cutting fertility? : the effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply

Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016

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Cutting fertility : the effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply

Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016

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The effects of motherhood

Markussen, Simen; Strøm, Marte - 2015

We use miscarriage as a biological shock to fertility in order to estimate the causal impact of motherhood on labor market outcomes. The number of instruments is increased by exploiting the response-heterogeneity to miscarriage along three dimensions: time, age, and birth order. This allows us...

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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...

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