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Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives?

Laroque, Guy; Salanié, Bernard - CESifo - 2008

There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … benefits and tax credits among "comparable" households. We implement this approach by estimating a discrete choice model of … female participation and fertility, using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and a fairly detailed …

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Three Family Policies to Reconcile Fertility and Labor Supply

Fenge, Robert; Stadler, Lisa - CESifo - 2014

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …, the secondary earner’s labor supply and welfare. Child benefits and subsidies for external child care are more effective … for external child care into a welfare program with child benefits makes families better off. …

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Pensions and Fertility: Back to the Roots - The Introduction of Bismarck's Pension Scheme and the European Fertility Decline

Fenge, Robert; Scheubel, Beatrice - CESifo - 2013

Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered … which a public pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical framework highlights that the effect of a public pension … system on fertility works via the impact of contributions in such a system on disposable income as well as via the impact on …

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Daddy Months

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2014

We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...

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Do Family Values Shape the Pace to Return to Work after Childbirth?

Borrell-Porta, Mireia - CESifo - 2015

This paper argues that the pace to return to work after childbirth is not independent of family values. I evaluate the effect of a parental leave policy reform in Germany in 2007-aimed at incentivizing an earlier return to work - on the return to work of mothers who hold different family values....

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Taxation and Parental Time Allocation under Different Assumptions on Altruism

Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro - CESifo - 2014

In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation. We investigate whether an increase in labor supply brought about by a reduction in taxes is always associated with a reduction in parental time devoted to children, which...

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Public Child Care and Mothers' Labor Supply - Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Schlotter, Martin - CESifo - 2013

Public child care is expected to assist families in reconciling work with family life. Yet, empirical evidence for the relevance of public child care to maternal employment is inconclusive. We exploit the introduction of a legal claim to a place in kindergarten in Germany, which was contingent...

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Intergenerational Transmission of Skills during Childhood and Optimal Public Policy

Casarico, Alessandra; Micheletto, Luca; Sommacal, Alessandro - CESifo - 2011

The paper characterizes the optimal tax policy and the optimal quality of day care services in a OLG model with warm-glow altruism where parental choices over child care arrangements affect the probability that the child becomes a high-skilled adult in a type-specific way. With respect to...

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Causal Effects of Paternity Leave on Children and Parents

Cools, Sara; Fiva, Jon H.; Kirkebøen, Lars J. - CESifo - 2011

In this paper we use a parental leave reform directed towards fathers to identify the causal effects of paternity leave on children’s and parents’ outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for children’s cognitive skills. School performance at age...

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Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Parental Leave Reform

Danzer, Natalia; Lavy, Victor - CESifo - 2013

This paper investigates the question whether long-term human capital outcomes are affected by the duration of maternity leave, i.e. by the time mothers spend at home with their newborn before returning to work. Employing RD and difference-in-difference approaches, this paper exploits an...

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