Search Results - subject_exact:"Family policy"

Turkey's "Year of the Family" 2025 : authoritarian trends and political economy of anti-gender politics

Aksoy, Hürcan Aslı; Bal, Sinem - 2026

The Turkish government’s declaration of 2025 as the “Year of the Family” reflects an increasingly authoritarian approach to managing demographic decline amid conditions of economic strain. Falling fertility rates are framed as a strategic challenge to national resilience, giving rise to a...

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Asymmetric fertility elasticities

Engle, Sam; Pang, Chong; Zhou, Anson - 2026

This paper develops a theory of fertility choice with loss aversion over consumption. Because children compete with consumption for household resources, loss-averse households cut fertility aggressively to protect living standards when adverse shocks push consumption below reference levels, but...

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Family policies in low fertility countries : evidence and reflections

Gauthier, Anne Hélène; Gietel-Basten, Stuart - 2025

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The evolution of child-related gender inequality in Germany and the role of family policies, 1960-2018

Glogowsky, Ulrich; Hansen, Emanuel; Sachs, Dominik; … - 2025

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The evolution of child-related gender inequality in Germany and the role of family policies, 1960-2018

Glogowsky, Ulrich; Hansen, Emanuel; Sachs, Dominik; … - 2025

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The evolution of child-related gender inequality in Germany and the role of family policies, 1960-2018

Glogowsky, Ulrich; Hansen, Emanuel; Sachs, Dominik; … - 2024

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The evolution of child-related gender inequality in Germany and the role of family policies, 1960-2018

Glogowsky, Ulrich; Hansen, Emanuel; Sachs, Dominik; … - 2024

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The evolution of child-related gender inequality in Germany and the role of family policies, 1960-2018

Glogowsky, Ulrich; Hansen, Emanuel; Sachs, Dominik; … - 2024

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Exploring the structural reform of youth policies to promote fertility

Kim, Wonshik - 2025

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Transformative approaches to an ecologically sustainable welfare state

Bock-Schappelwein, Julia; Egger, Andrea; Falkner, Katharina - 2024

This paper examines how the necessary socio-ecological transformation can be shaped through welfare state institutions and measures in such a way that it does not cause social tensions and avoids any new environmentally harmful maladjustments, but rather is as socially just and ecologically...

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Turkey's "Year of the Family" 2025: Authoritarian trends and political economy of anti-gender politics

Aksoy, Hürcan Aslı; Bal, Sinem - 2026

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Childhood, well-being and fairness

Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthière, Grégory - 2026

This paper examines the design of optimal family policies when children have unequal needs (in terms of material goods and parental time), leading to heterogeneous preferences, and have parents with unequal degrees of altruism. We examine the issue of interpersonal well-being comparisons between...

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Childhood, well-being and fairness

Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthière, Grégory - 2026

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Childhood, well-being and fairness

Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthière, Grégory - 2026

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Fertility and family leave polices in Germany : optimal policy design in a dynamic frameworK

Wang, Hanna - 2026

I develop and estimate a life-cycle discrete-choice model of fertility and female labor supply to study the optimal design of a range of child-related policies. First, I examine two German reforms that introduced wage-contingent parental leave payments and expanded access to low-cost public...

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Fertility response to family policy : Insights from Spain's paternity leave

Regueiro-Ons, Camila; Pinilla Domínguez, Jaime; … - 2026

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Supporting mothers back to work : experimental evidence on employment, fertility, and child outcomes

Del Boca, Daniela; Favero, Luca; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2026

Many advanced economies face persistently low fertility alongside rapid population ageing, raising concerns about economic sustainability and demographic balance. Addressing these challenges requires both sustained labor market participation among the workingage population and conditions that...

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Caring dads? : universal childcare, paternity leave, and fathers' labor supply

Huebener, Mathias; Mahlbacher, Malin K.; Schmitz, Sophia - 2026

We study how expansions of publicly subsidized childcare affect the intra-household allocation of labor supply in early childhood, with a particular focus on fathers. Exploiting variation in the roll-out of childcare places for children under three across German counties, we show that increased...

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Fertility and family leave policies in Germany : optimal policy design in a dynamic framework

Wang, Hanna - 2026

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Fertility and family leave policies in Germany : optimal policy design in a dynamic framework

Wang, Hanna - 2025

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Parental leave policy and gender attitudes

Bargain, Olivier; Le Vot, Julie; Hérault, Nicolas - 2026

This paper examines whether family policy can shape gender attitudes. We exploit the introduction of a paid parental leave (PPL) scheme in Australia in 2011 and use panel data to study changes in women's gender attitudes around childbirth. Prior to the reform, childbirth is associated with a...

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Health and well-being of parents caring for children with disabilities : a crossnational comparative study

Sherafat, Shamim; Buber-Ennser, Isabella; Di Giulio, Paola - 2026

The health and well-being of parents raising children with disabilities is increasingly gaining importance in demographic and public health research. Caregiving responsibilities associated with childhood disability may create substantial emotional, physical, and social strain, potentially...

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Unconditional cash transfers and maternal labor supply : evidence from Bavaria's family allowance

Böhme, Fabian - 2026 - Preliminary Draft

This paper investigates the labor supply effects of unconditional cash transfers aimed at young families, using the Bavarian Family Allowance (Familiengeld ), introduced in 2018. The policy provides € 250-300 monthly to families with children aged 13-36 months regardless of employment status...

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Unconditional cash transfers and maternal labor supply: Evidence from Bavaria's family allowance

Böhme, Fabian - 2026

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Gender care gap and gender pay gap increase substantially until middle age

Schäper, Clara; Schrenker, Annekatrin; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2023

While the gender pay gap between men and women in Germany remains at 18 percent, this figure is not the same for all employees. There are, for example, major differences by age. Beginning at age 30, the gender pay gap increases sharply and remains constantly high at 20 percent until retirement....

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Measurement matters: family leave policies and women's employment

Cotter, Brigid - 2023

Although work-family scholars generally agree that maternal and parental leave policies affect women's labor force outcomes, the direction and extent of this effect is highly contentious. Complicating the debate, parental leave policies are measured in a variety of ways in crossnational...

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Measurement Matters: Family Leave Policies and Women’s Employment

Cotter, Brigid - 2023

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The expansion of early childcare and transitions to first and second birth in Germany

Schuß, Eric; Azaouagh, Mohammed - 2023

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Do international treaties have an impact only on ratifying States? : the influence of the ILO Maternity Protection Conventions in 160 countries between 1883 and 2018

Son, Keonhi - 2023

Contrary to the expectation that only ratifying States comply with ILO Conventions, this article argues that even non-ratifying States improve their domestic standards consistent with ILO Conventions to enhance their legitimacy. Using a new historical database, I track changes in maternity leave...

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The importance of work life balance for contemporary management and public policies

Marzec, Małgorzata; Szczudlińska-Kanoś, Agnieszka - 2023

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The Family 500+ benefit and changes in female employment in Poland

Bartosik, Krzysztof - 2023

This paper investigates the relationship between the implementation of the Family 500+ benefit, changes in female employment and female economic inactivity. The analysis is based on macro data and is focused on the years 2016-2019. To examine the relationship, this study uses decomposition of...

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The Family 500+ benefit and changes in female employment in Poland

Bartosik, Krzysztof - 2023

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The Evolution of Child-Related Gender Inequality in Germany and The Role of Family Policies, 1960-2018

Glogowsky, Ulrich; Hansen, Emanuel; Sachs, Dominik; … - 2025

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Mothers' work, reconciliation issues, and fertility desires : evidence from the evaluation of a program to support mothers

Del Boca, Daniela; Favero, Luca; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2026

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Mothers' work, reconciliation issues, andfertility desires evidence from the evaluation of a program to support mothers

Del Boca, Daniela; Favero, Luca; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2025

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Exploring the impact of social, cultural, and legal contexts on women's access to quality paid employment

Arunatilake, Nisha; Araar, Abdelkrim; Fontana, Marzia - 2025

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The short- and long-term effects of family-friendly policies on mothers' employment

Quinto, Alicia de; González, Libertad - 2025

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The short- and long-term effects of family-friendly policies on mothers' employment

Quinto, Alicia de; González, Libertad - 2024

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When mothers out-earn fathers : effects on fathers' decisions to take paternity and parental leave

Biasi, Paola; De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca - 2025

This study investigates the influence of the male breadwinner norm on fathers' decisions regarding childcare responsibilities. We study the complex interplay between economic factors and gender norms in shaping the division of household labor within families by analyzing the impact a...

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Care policy effects on individuals' decisions of marriage, fertility and family elderly care provision

Yakita, Akira - 2025

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The impact of family policies on maternal health

Dehos, Fabian; Paul, Marie; Schäfer, Wiebke; Süß, Karolin - 2025

This paper examines the impact of two major family policies on maternal health, using rich claims data from the German Pharmacoepidemiological Research Database (GePaRD). We report a significant short-term impact of childcare on diagnosed respiratory diseases and heterogeneous effects on mental...

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Paternity leave in Spain

Farré, Lídia; González, Libertad; Hupkau, Claudia; … - 2025

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The effects of maternity leave benefits on mothers and children : a reexamination

Lillebø, Otto Sevaldson; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2025

We provide a full reexamination of the effects of a maternity leave extension implemented in Norway in 1977. Previous research reporting large favorable long-term effects on mothers' health and on offspring's educational and labor market outcomes relied on an incorrect description of the reform...

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Empirical essays on fertility, female representation, and educational policies

Frattola, Edoardo - 2025

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Paid parental leave and social sustainability in the Nordic countries

Duvander, Ann-Zofie; Arnalds, Ásdís A.; … - 2025

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Parental leave benefits and gender inequality : evidence from a benefits cap for high-earning mothers

Waights, Sevrin - 2025 - This version: June 2025

I use the universe of tax returns in Germany and a regression kink design to estimate the impacts of mothers' parental leave benefit amounts on couple earnings inequality. I make use of a benefits cap to estimate the causal impacts for high-earning women; a group for which earnings inequality is...

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Politiche sociali e fecondità in Italia : una revisione della letteratura tra approcci pronatalisti e interventi strutturali

Vignoli, Daniele; Guetto, Raffaele; Brini, Elisa - 2025

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Evaluation of the Five Family Payments

2025

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Impact evaluation of the Cambodia family package programme : baseline report

2025

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Changing landscapes of parenthood : childbearing among same-sex and different-sex couples in the Nordic countries

Ponkilainen, Maria; Einiö, Elina; Kolk, Martin; … - 2025

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How religion mediates the fertility response to maternity benefits

Brainerd, Elizabeth; Malkova, Olga - 2025

Do religious beliefs affect responses to fertility incentives? We examine a 1982 maternity benefits expansion in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in a difference-in-differences framework with similar East European countries as comparisons. To isolate the importance of religion, we compare women who...

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Examining the effect of a child tax on fertility in a two-sector model

Kaneko, Akihiko - 2025

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The universal family childcare promise : guaranteeing support for parents and children

Pollard, Tom; Stephens, Tom - 2025

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Employers' discrimination against fathers and mothers taking parental leave : evidence from a choice experiment

Cukrowska-Torzewska, Ewa; Matysiak, Anna; Kasperska, … - 2025

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Parenting leave duration and mothers' skills along the life course

Lemoine, Adèle; Spitzer, Sonja; Reiter, Claudia - 2025

A prominent explanation for the motherhood wage penalty is human capital loss during career interruptions around childbirth. This study provides first direct evidence on this mechanism by examining whether longer parenting leave reduces mothers' work-relevant skills. Using a newly constructed...

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Child welfare system contact and voting

White, Ariel R.; Grimon, Marie-Pascale; Goldstein, Rebecca - 2025

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The motherhood effect on earnings amid declining fertility : evidence from Korea

Hwang, Jisoo; Yoon, Inkyung - 2025

Across developed countries, women's earnings decline sharply following childbirth while men's earnings remain unaffected. But how will the "motherhood effect" evolve as more women choose not to have children? We examine changes in the motherhood effect on earnings amid rising childlessness in...

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Can parental leave policies change leave-taking norms? : evidence from immigrants

Furtado, Delia; Trajkovski, Samantha; Theodoropoulos, … - 2025

When maternity leave policies lower the cost of taking leave, leave durations tend to increase. If enough people extend their leaves, social norms can shift, further reinforcing longer leave-taking. This paper examines whether foreign-born mothers in the US-who are not directly subject to home...

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Quantifying Okun's leaky bucket : the case of progressive childcare subsidies

Koll, David; Sachs, Dominik; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian; … - 2025

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Quantifying okun's leaky bucket : the case of progressive childcare subsidies

Koll, David; Sachs, Dominik; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian; … - 2025

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Quantifying Okun's leaky bucket : the case of progressive childcare subsidies

Koll, David; Sachs, Dominik; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian; … - 2024

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A critical analysis of Russia's Maternity Capital program : demographic intentions vs. socioeconomic realities

Samodova, Anna - 2025

Russia's Maternity Capital program, launched in 2007, is a key policy with an obvious pronatalist focus aimed at countering the country's long-term depopulation trend by encouraging families to have more children. Initially, providing financial incentives for second and subsequent births. The...

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The politics of production and social reproduction

Bohle, Dorothee; Vukov, Visnja - 2025

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Dopady pandemie covidu-19 na sólo rodiče

Höhne, Sylva; Paloncyová, Jana; Svobodová, Kamila - 2022

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