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The Costs of Motherhood : An Analysis using Matching Estimators
Simonsen, Marianne - 2007
We estimate the effect of motherhood on wages using matching. We distinguish between net and direct effects. The net … effect includes the total wage costs, whereas the direct represents the causal effect. Since covariates are likely affected … by motherhood, the latter effect is not immediately uncovered. We therefore implement two strategies: First, we confine …
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Full childcare coverage : higher maternal labour supply and childcare usage?
Vanleenhove, Pieter - 2013
According to many studies, childcare is an important input for children’s development but it is also used to free up time for parents to work. However, many households are still confronted with availability constraints in childcare. In the recent past, many governments implemented policy...
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Full Childcare Coverage : Higher Maternal Labour Supply and Childcare Usage?
Vanleenhove, Pieter - 2014
According to many studies, childcare is important for its pedagogical, economical and social function for both children and parents. However, many households are still confronted with availability constraints in childcare. In the recent past, many governments implemented policy reforms in order...
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Is There an Advantage to Working? The Relationship between Maternal Employment and Intergenerational Mobility
Harrison Stinson, Martha - 2015
We investigate the question of whether investing in a child's development by having a parent stay at home when the child is young is correlated with the child's adult outcomes. Specifically, do children with stay-at-home mothers have higher adult earnings than children raised in households with...
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Employment Responses to Income Effect : Evidence from Pension Reform
Becker, Sebastian; Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2021
For the design of the pension system, it is crucial to disentangle the employment responses related to the substitution effect and the income effect. In this paper, we provide causal evidence regarding the importance of the income effect, which is generally assumed to be small or non-existent....
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Heterogeneous Effects of Maternal Labor Market Participation on Nutritional Status of Children : Empirical Evidence From Rural India
Diiro, Gracious - 2014
We use a nationally representative dataset from India to investigate the causal effects of maternal participation in labor markets on child nutrition (the standardized height for age). Our study differs from previous research in two important aspects: it explores malnutrition using a quantile...
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Moral licensing: Another source of rebound?
Dütschke, Elisabeth; Frondel, Manuel; Schleich, Joachim; … - 2018
The rebound effect denotes an offset in energy savings that occurs when an individual increases consumption of a good or service following an increase in its efficiency. It has both economic and psychological underpinnings: In addition to the price, income and substitution effects emphasized by...
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Environmental damage and price taking behaviour by firms and consumers
Houba, Harold; Kremers, Hans - 2009
Integrated assessment models lack a microeconomic foundation in modelling environmental damages to the economy. To overcome this, damage coefficients are incorporated in standard microeconomic models. Firms and consumers take both damages and prices as given. Demand, supply, profit and...
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Environmental damage and price taking behaviour by firms and consumers
Houba, Harold; Kremers, Hans - 2009
Integrated assessment models lack a microeconomic foundation in modelling environmental damages to the economy. To overcome this, damage coefficients are incorporated in standard microeconomic models. Firms and consumers take both damages and prices as given. Demand, supply, profit and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377842
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Moral licensing : another source of rebound?
Dütschke, Elisabeth; Frondel, Manuel; Schleich, Joachim; … - 2018
Der Rebound-Effekt kann sowohl ökonomische als auch psychologische Ursachen haben. Zusätzlich zu den von Ökonomen herausgestellten Preis-, Einkommens-, und Substitutionseffekten weisen Psychologen auf den Einfluss von Moral Licensing hin. Dabei handelt es sich um einen kognitiven Vorgang, bei...
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