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Parental Leave, (In)formal Childcare and Long-term Child Outcomes

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

There is a strong debate about who should provide care to young children. Governments offer two alternative types of institutions: formal childcare and parental leave. We assess the effectiveness of these two competing institutions in promoting child development by comparing how a major parental...

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Two-Stage Least Squares Random Forests with a Replication of Angrist and Evans (1998)

Kugler, Philipp; Biewen, Martin - 2020

We develop the case of two-stage least squares estimation (2SLS) in the general framework of Athey et al. (Generalized Random Forests, Annals of Statistics, Vol. 47, 2019) and provide a software implementation for R and C++. We use the method to revisit the classic application of instrumental...

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Does the Right to Work Part-Time Affect Mothers' Labor Market Outcomes?

Paule-Paludkiewicz, Hannah - 2020

higher-order fertility. I use a differences-in-differences design to investigate the introduction of a German law in 2001 …

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The nexus between social grants and participation rates: Dynamics across generations in the South African labour market

Burger, Rulof; von Fintel, Dieter; Grün, Carola - 2010

This paper will have a closer look at the role of South African welfare programs on the labour supply decision across generations. From a theoretical point of view, a change in non-labour household income will affect the decision to participate in the labour market. Previous studies have focused...

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Moving to an earnings-related parental leave system do heterogeneous effects on parents make some children worse off?

Huber, Katrin - 2015

Can moving to an earnings-related parental leave system influence children s well-being and are heterogeneous effects on parents carried over to the entire family, making special groups of children worse off than others? To answer this question, this study exploits a large and unanticipated...

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The Effects of Free Childcare on Labor Supply and Children

Busse, Anna; Gathmann, Christina - 2015

Many governments have introduced generous childcare subsidies to allow all children access to early childhood education. The effects of these costly programs are however still debated. In this paper, we use the introduction of free public childcare in several states in Germany to analyze its...

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Age effects on employment after first birth - A timing of events approach

Sommerfeld, Katrin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Steffes, Susanne - 2010

The effects of employment breaks on labor market outcomes are of great relevance in particular for females in relation with childbirth. In this paper we estimate the effect of the timing of women's first birth on later labor market outcomes, more precisely the effect on employment. In order to...

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Fertility, Female Labor Supply, and Family Policy

Ujhelyiova, Daniela; Fehr, Hans - 2010

. Then we simulate alternative reforms of child benefits and family taxation which increase the fertility rate and the long … change in the population structure. Second, it is possible to generate a joint increase of the fertility rate and female …The present paper develops a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and endogenous fertility in order …

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Individual Performance and Employment Behavior after Maternity Leave: Evidence based on Company Data

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Steffes, Susanne; Strittmatter, Anthony - 2010

We analyze maternity leave durations, transition probabilities within a competing risks model and exit probabilities after maternity leave. Our sample exists of 1200 first-time mothers working in a large German company. With personnel data we observe employment histories with specific...

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Fixed-term Employment and Fertility: Theory and Evidence from German Micro Data

Auer, Wolfgang; Danzer, Natalia; Rainer, Helmut - 2013

In Germany, it has become conventional wisdom that the economic uncertainty associated fixed-term employment contracts prevents young couples from realizing their desire to have children. From a research perspective, it is however far from clear whether fixed-term contracts are the obstacle to...

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