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Mothers' birth giving status and the division of parental leave: A comparison of adoptive and biological parents

Moberg, Ylva; Van der Vleuten, Maaike - 2022

Mothers' longer time on parental leave after having children has been proposed as one reason for remaining gender inequalities in the labor market. This paper investigates the determinants of the unequal division of parental leave, specifically the argument that mothers take more parental leave...

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Reducing the gender gap in parental leave through economic incentives? Evidence from the gender equality bonus in Sweden

Rosenqvist, Olof - 2022

Using administrative data from Sweden, I study an internationally unique parental leave policy that rewarded parents with a financial bonus as a function of their division of paid parental leave. Results from a birthdate based regression discontinuity design show that the policy significantly...

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National aggregates and individual disaffiliation: An international study

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - 2009

Using a dataset of 15,000 subjects from 32 western countries, the current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their lives left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as 'no religion'. A battery of explanatory variables...

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Can you stay at home today? The relationship between economic dependence, parents' occupation and care leave for sick children

Boye, Katarina - 2014

This is one of only a few studies on the division of care leave for sick children between parents in Sweden and the first to attempt to examine the importance of differences in parents' work characteristics. The study uses register data for parents with children born in 1999-2002 to analyse two...

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Does the stork deliver happiness? Parenthood and life satisfaction

Baetschmann, Gregori; Staub, Kevin E.; Studer, Raphael - 2012

become mothers and of women eventually attaining a completed fertility of zero. We document that these groups' satisfaction …

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Mommies' girls get dresses, daddies' boys get toys: Gender preferences in Poland and their Implications

Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michał - 2011

Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility …

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Parental leave, (in)formal childcare and long-term child outcomes

Danzer, Natalia; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2017

We provide a novel interpretation of the estimated treatment effects from evaluations of parental leave reforms. Accounting for the counterfactual mode of care is crucial in the analysis of child outcomes and potential mediators. We evaluate a large and generous parental leave extension in...

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Ramadan fasting, sex-ratio at birth, and birth weight : no effects on Muslim infants born in Germany

Jürges, Hendrik - In: Economics letters 137 (2015), pp. 13-16

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The effect of compulsory schooling laws on teenage marriage and births in Turkey

Kirdar, Murat G.; Tayfur, Meltem Dayıoğlu; Koç, İsmet - 2010

and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the … new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … effects of the education policy on the time until marriage and firstbirth persist beyond the completion of compulsory …

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More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe

Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nichole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2011

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …

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