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Mothers 1,650 Mütter 1,642 Weibliche Arbeitskräfte 562 Women workers 561 United States 448 USA 447 Children 369 Kinder 365 Kinderbetreuung 218 Child care 217 Germany 175 Deutschland 173 Arbeitsangebot 171 Labour supply 170 Health 151 Gesundheit 150 Fertility 148 Fertilität 143 Estimation 131 Schätzung 131 Employment 123 Erwerbstätigkeit 117 Youth 105 Jugendliche 104 Alleinerziehende 103 Single-parent family 103 Bildungsniveau 99 Educational achievement 99 Familienpolitik 99 Family policy 99 Großbritannien 92 United Kingdom 92 Parental leave 86 Elternzeit 85 Women 85 Family 80 Familie 79 Motherhood 79 Frauen 76 motherhood 73
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Book / Working Paper 941 Article 846 Journal 3
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Article in journal 752 Aufsatz in Zeitschriften 752 Graue Literatur 715 Non-commercial literature 715 Working Paper 544 Arbeitspapier 538 Amtsdruckschrift 70 Government document 70 Article in book 62 Aufsatz im Buch 62 Collection of articles of several authors 47 Sammelwerk 47 Thesis 46 Dissertation 44 Hochschulschrift 32 Bibliographie 19 Collection of articles written by one author 18 Sammlung 18 Statistics 18 Statistik 18 Congress report 17 Kongressschrift 17 Bibliographie enthalten 13 Bibliography included 13 Advisory report 5 Aufsatzsammlung 5 Gutachten 5 Case study 4 Fallstudie 4 Mehrbändiges Werk 3 Multi-volume publication 3 Biographie 2 No longer published / No longer aquired 2 Parlamentaria 2 Bericht 1 Book review 1 Kongress 1 Lehrbuch 1 Mikroform 1 Rezension 1
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English 1,526 German 107 Undetermined 60 French 38 Spanish 18 Hungarian 7 Russian 7 Portuguese 6 Polish 5 Swedish 5 Norwegian 4 Bulgarian 3 Danish 3 Finnish 3 Arabic 2 Czech 2 Thai 2 Italian 1 Dutch 1
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Waldfogel, Jane 25 Currie, Janet M. 20 Salvanes, Kjell G. 18 Ruhm, Christopher J. 14 Joshi, Heather E. 13 Kimmel, Jean 12 Wrohlich, Katharina 12 Carneiro, Pedro M. 11 Connelly, Rachel 11 Spieß, Christa Katharina 11 Blau, David 10 Løken, Katrine V. 10 Black, Sandra E. 9 Devereux, Paul J. 9 Gustafsson, Siv S. 9 Kunze, Astrid 9 Olivetti, Claudia 9 Tekin, Erdal 9 Berger, Eva M. 8 Bhalotra, Sonia R. 8 Pronzato, Chiara 8 Almond, Douglas 7 Francesconi, Marco 7 Herbst, Chris M. 7 Pacelli, Lia 7 Pasqua, Silvia 7 Villosio, Claudia 7 Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf 7 Bharadwaj, Prashant 6 Bianchi, Suzanne M. 6 Corman, Hope 6 Dearing, Helene 6 Ermisch, John 6 Fitzenberger, Bernd 6 Gupta, Nabanita Datta 6 Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria 6 Hofer, Helmut 6 Hunt, Jennifer 6 Jayachandran, Seema 6 Leibowitz, Arleen A. 6
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Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 7 Tilburg University, Work and Organization Research Centre 6 Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs 5 Centre for Economic Performance 5 Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino 4 Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung 4 London School of Economics (LSE) 4 Ungarn / Központi Statisztikai Hivatal 4 eSocialSciences 4 Centre for Economic Performance, LSE 3 Deutschland / Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend 3 International Institute for Population Sciences 3 Europäische Kommission / Statistisches Amt 2 Europäisches Netzwerk von Rechtsexpertinnen und Rechtsexperten auf dem Gebiet der Gleichstellung von Frauen und Männern 2 ILADES, Facultad de Economía y Negocios 2 Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung 2 Institute for Fiscal Studies 2 Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) 2 Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi <Bergen> 2 Jemen / al-Ǧihāz al-Markazī liʾ-l-Iḥṣāʾ 2 Sociedade Civil Bem-Estar Familiar no Brasil 2 Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles 2 Thailand / Samnakngān Sathiti hǣng Chāt 2 Türkei / Ana Çocuk Sağlığı ve Aile Planlaması Genel Müdürlüğü 2 USA / Bureau of Labor Statistics 2 African Institute for Applied Economics 1 Banca d'Italia 1 Bangladesch / Parisaṅkhyāna Byuro 1 Birkbeck College / Department of Economics 1 Botswana / Central Statistics Office 1 Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung / Arbeitskreis Demographie der Entwicklungsländer 1 Cebu / Study Team 1 Centre d'Etudes du Commerce <Paris> 1 Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) 1 Centre for International Statistics on Economic and Social Welfare <Ottawa> 1 Dawliffe Hall Educational Foundation 1 Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico II, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales 1 EconomiX, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre la Défense (Paris X) 1 Economics Research, World Bank Group 1 Ekonomisk-historiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan 1
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Discussion paper series 113 Working paper 88 Journal of human resources : JHR 48 Demography : a publication of the Population Association of America ; the statistical study of human populations 26 Journal of population economics 22 SOEP papers on multidisciplinary panel data research 21 Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research 20 Discussion papers 15 Review of Economics of the Household 14 The review of economics and statistics 14 Journal of health economics 13 Policy research working paper : WPS 13 American economic journal : a journal of the American Economic Association 12 Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & economic inequalities 12 The American economic review 12 CESifo working papers 11 Economic development and cultural change 11 Journal of labor economics 11 Australian journal of labour economics : a journal of labour economics and labour relations ; official journal of the Australian Society of Labour Economists 10 Conference papers / Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa 10 Feminist economics 10 Labour economics : official journal of the European Association of Labour Economists 10 LIS working paper series 9 Monthly labor review : MLR 9 Working papers 9 Working papers in economics 9 ZEW discussion papers 9 Applied economics 8 Discussion paper / NHH, Department of Economics 8 ILR review : the journal of work and policy 8 Oxford economic papers 8 CEP discussion paper 7 Cambridge journal of economics 7 Eastern economic journal 7 Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic Association International 7 Labour : review of labour economics and industrial relations 7 Sociological Research Online 7 The quarterly journal of economics 7 Demographic and Health Surveys comparative studies 6 Economie et statistique 6
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ECONIS (ZBW) 1,661 RePEc 79 USB Cologne (EcoSocSci) 38 EconStor 6 BASE 3 ArchiDok 2 USB Cologne (business full texts) 1
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Employment adjustments around childbirth
Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara; Pertold, Filip; Gupta, … - 2016
Using rich longitudinal register data from Denmark, we show that the allocation of mothers between the competitive private sector and the family-friendly public sector significantly changes around the birth of their first child. Specifically, mothers – post first childbirth – are...
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The outcomes of perceived work-based support for mothers : a conceptual model
Meglich, Patricia; Mihelič, Katarina Katja; Zupan, Nada - 2016
With the increase in the proportion of women holding leadership positions work-based support has been identified as an important issue in female workers’ job performance and their decisions to have children and to return to work after giving birth. Nonetheless, we need to better understand how...
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Does career risk deter potential entrepreneurs?
Gottlieb, Joshua D.; Townsend, Richard R.; Xu, Ting - 2017
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Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave
Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017
We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that had paid benefits for up to two years was replaced by an earnings related transfer which paid...
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Child care reforms and labor participation of migrant and native mothers
Fendel, Tanja; Jochimsen, Beate - 2017
As in other countries, also in Germany there has been large political effort to increase mothers' labor participation through child care provisions. However, it is an open question whether the latest child care reforms of 2013 are successful in this sense. While the introduction of a home care...
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The motherhood penalty and female employment in urban India
Bordia Das, Maitreyi; Žumbytė, Ieva - 2017
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The effect of fertility on mothers' labor supply over the last two centuries
Aaronson, Daniel; Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Jordan, Andrew; … - 2017
This paper documents the evolving impact of childbearing on the work activity of mothers between 1787 and 2014. It is based on a compiled data set of 429 censuses and surveys, representing 101 countries and 46.9 million mothers, using the International and U.S. IPUMS, the North Atlantic...
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Effects of maternal work incentives on youth crime
Corman, Hope; Dave, Dhaval; Kalil, Ariel; Reichman, Nancy E. - 2017
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How does grandparent childcare affect labor supply? : childcare provided by grandparents helps young working mothers, but reduces the labor supply of older women
Zanella, Giulio - 2017
Older people in developed countries are living longer and healthier lives. A prolonged and healthy mature period of life is often associated with continued and active participation in the labor market. At the same time, active grandparents can offer their working offspring a free, flexible, and...
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National health insurance subscription and maternal healthcare utilisation across mothers’ wealth status in Ghana
Ameyaw, Edward Kwabena; Kofinti, Raymond Elikplim; … - In: Health economics review 7 (2017) 16, pp. 1-15
Introduction: This study is against the backdrop that despite the forty-nine percent decline in Maternal Mortality Rate in Ghana, the situation still remains high averaging 319 per 100,000 live births between 2011 and 2015. Objective: To examine the relationship between National Health Insurance...
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Arbeitszeitwünsche und Erwerbstätigkeit von Müttern : welche Vorstellungen über die Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie bestehen
Lietzmann, Torsten; Wenzig, Claudia - 2017
Die Erwerbsbeteiligung sowie die Arbeitszeitwünsche von Frauen schwanken stark je nach dem, ob ein Partner oder Kind(er) im Haushalt leben. Bei Männern spielt die Haushaltskonstellation dagegen kaum eine Rolle. Um besser abschätzen zu können, ob es bei der Erwerbstätigkeit von Müttern...
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Maternal and neonatal services in Ethiopia : measuring and improving quality
Canavan, Maureen E.; Brault, Marie A.; Tatek, Dawit; … - 2017
Problem: Maternal and neonatal mortality remains high in low- and middle-income countries, with poor quality of intrapartum care as a barrier to further progress. Approach: We developed and tested a method of measuring the quality of maternal and neonatal care that could be embedded in a larger...
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The effects of in-kind demand-side conditional transfers for improving uptake of maternal and child health services in Rwanda
Shapira, Gil; Kalisa, Ina; Condo, Jeanine; Humuza, James; … - 2017
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Developing global indicators for quality of maternal and newborn care : a feasibility assessment
Madaj, Barbara; Smith, Helen; Mathai, Matthews; Roos, … - 2017
Objective: To assess the feasibility of applying the World Health Organization's proposed 15 indicators of quality of care for maternal and newborn health at health-facility level in low- and middle-income settings. Methods: Six of the indicators are about maternal health, five are for newborn...
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Mütter in Führungspositionen : Identitätsarbeit im Spannungsfeld zwischen Beruf und Familie
Rosemeyer, Melanie - 2017
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Maternal socio-economic status and the well-being of the next generation(s)
Buckles, Kasey S. - 2017
A rich literature in economics and the social sciences has shown that improvements in women's socio-economic status (SES) can also improve the well-being of their children. This chapter identifies several channels for this effect, drawing on both theoretical and empirical work in economics....
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The value of mandating maternal education in a developing country
Dursun, Bahadir; Cesur, Resul; Kelly, Inas Rashad - 2017
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An analysis of the Memphis Nurse-Family Partnership Program
Heckman, James J.; Holland, Margaret L.; Makino, Kevin K.; … - 2017
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Women, work, and family
Blau, Francine D.; Winkler, Anne E. - 2017
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The motherhood wage penalty : a varieties of capitalism approach
Lundquist, Erik; Eklööf, Hanna - 2017
This paper aims to relate the issue of the Motherhood Wage Penalty to the institutional framework "Varieties of Capitalism." Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we perform cross-national analyses on the discrepancy in wages between mothers with young children and females without...
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Can financial incentives reduce the baby gap? : evidence from a reform in maternity leave benefits
Raute, Anna - 2017
To assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby gap between high educated (high earning) and low educated (low earning) women, I exploit a major maternity leave benefit reform in Germany that considerably increases the financial incentives...
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The effect of fertility on mothers' labor supply over the last two centuries
Aaronson, Daniel; Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Jordan, Andrew; … - 2017
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Examining Japanese women's preferences for a new style of postnatal care facility and its attributes
Shen, Junyi; Nakashima, Takako; Karasawa, Izumi; Furui, … - 2017
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The socioeconomics of fish consumption and child health in Bangladesh
Dasgupta, Susmita; Mustafa, Mohammed Golam; Paul, Tapas; … - 2017
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Employment Adjustments around Childbirth
Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara; Pertold, Filip; Datta Gupta, … - 2016
Using rich longitudinal register data from Denmark, we show that the allocation of mothers between the competitive private sector and the family-friendly public sector significantly changes around the birth of their first child. Specifically, mothers – post first childbirth – are...
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Maternal employment trajectories and caring for an infant or toddler with a disability
Zhu, Anna - 2016
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Erwerbseintritte im Zeitverlauf bei Müttern junger Kinder im SGB II
Zabel, Cordula - 2016
In dieser Studie wird monatsgenau untersucht, wie sich die Eintrittsraten von Müttern mit Arbeitslosengeld-II (ALG-II)-Bezug in abhängige Beschäftigung1 über die ersten vier Lebensjahre des jüngsten Kindes entwickeln. Für Eltern, die Kinder im Alter von drei Jahren oder älter betreuen,...
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The impact of maternity leave laws on cesarean delivery
Stoddard, Christiana; Stock, Wendy A.; Hogenson, Elise - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 16 (2016) 1, pp. 321-364
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Effect of lengthening the school day on mother’s labor supply
Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Sepúlveda, Paulina - 2016
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The impact of paid parental leave on labour supply and employment outcomes
Broadway, Barbara; Kalb, Guyonne; McVicar, Duncan; … - 2016
The introduction of the Australian Paid Parental Leave scheme in 2011 provides a rare opportunity to estimate the labour supply and employment impacts of publicly-funded paid leave on mothers in the first year post-partum. The almost universal coverage of the scheme coupled with detailed survey...
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Extending health insurance in Ghana : effects of the National Health Insurance Scheme on maternity care
Brugiavini, Agar; Pace, Noemi - In: Health economics review 6 (2016) 7, pp. 1-10
Background: There is considerable interest in exploring the potential of social health insurance in Africa where a number of countries are currently experimenting with different approaches. Since these schemes have been introduced recently and are continuously evolving, it is important to...
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The family peer effect on mothers´ labour supply
Nicoletti, Cheti; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Tominey, Emma - 2016
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The family peer effect on mothers' labour supply
Nicoletti, Cheti; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Tominey, Emma - 2016
The documented historical rise in female labour force participation has flattened in recent decades, but the proportion of mothers working full-time has steadily increased. We provide the first empirical evidence that the increase in mothers' working hours is amplified through the influence of...
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Locus of control and mothers' return to employment
Berger, Eva M.; Haywood, Luke - 2016
This paper investigates the effect of locus of control (LOC) on the length of mothers’ employment break after childbirth. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), duration data reveals that women with an internal LOC return to employment more quickly than women with an...
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The long shadows of past insults : intergenerational transmission of health over 130 years
Andreella, Claudia; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; … - 2016
This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of health in the very long run. Using a unique purpose-built administrative dataset on individuals born in Sweden between 1930-34 and their parents, we study the intergenerational transmission (IGT) of health and the impact of previous...
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Grandparental availability for child care and maternal employment : pension reform evidence from Italy
Bratti, Massimiliano; Frattini, Tommaso; Scervini, Francesco - 2016
In this paper, we exploit pension reform-induced changes in retirement eligibility requirements to assess the role of grandparental child care availability in the employment of women who have children under 15. We focus on Italy for two reasons: first, it has low rates of female employment and...
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The impact of paid parental leave on labour supply and employment outcomes
Broadway, Barbara; Kalb, Guyonne; McVicar, Duncan; … - 2016
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Comparative analysis of the motherhood gap in employment and wages : the role of family policies and their interaction
Cukrowska-Torzewska, Ewa - 2016
The paper documents employment and wage gaps, which arise between mothers and childless women, for a set of 28 European countries. The role of family policies in explaining these inequalities is then examined by looking at a single policy as well as childcare and leave policies interaction. The...
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Family ruptures, stress, and the mental health of the next generation
Persson, Petra; Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2016
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Maternal education, parental investment and non-cognitive skills in rural China
Leight, Jessica; Liu, Elaine M. - 2016
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Experimenting with entrepreneurship : the effect of job-protected leave
Gottlieb, Joshua D.; Townsend, Richard R.; Xu, Ting - 2016
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The effect of occupational licensing on consumer welfare : early midwifery laws and maternal mortality
Anderson, D. Mark; Brown, Ryan; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; … - 2016
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The impact of abortion legalization on fertility and maternal mortality : new evidence from Mexico
Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna - 2016
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Does universalization of health work? evidence from health systems restructuring and maternal and child health in Brazil
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rocha, Rudi; Soares, Rodigo R. - 2016
We investigate restructuring of the health system in Brazil motivated to operationalize universal health coverage. Using administrative data from multiple sources and an event study approach that exploits the staggered rollout of programmatic changes across municipalities, we find large...
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Maternal education, parental investment and non-cognitive characteristics in rural China
Leight, Jessica; Liu, Elaine M. - 2016
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Parental leave and maternal labor supply : parental leave increases the family-work balance, but may have negative impacts on mothers' careers
Kunze, Astrid - 2016
Numerous studies have investigated whether the provision and generosity of parental leave affects the employment and career prospects of women. Parental leave systems typically provide either short unpaid leave mandated by the firm, as in the US, or more generous and universal leave mandated by...
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Is maternal employment related to childhood obesity? : institutions and policies affect whether working mothers raise heavier children
Gwozdz, Wencke - 2016
Childhood obesity has been rising steadily in most parts of the world. Popular speculation attributes some of that increase to rising maternal employment. Employed mothers spend less time at home and thus less time with their children, whose diets and physical activity may suffer. Also, children...
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Mothers, peers and gender identity
Olivetti, Claudia; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2016
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The effect of occupational licensing on consumer welfare : early midwifery laws and maternal mortality
Anderson, D. Mark; Brown, Ryan; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; … - 2016
Occupational licensing is intended to protect consumers. Whether it does so is an important, but unanswered, question. Exploiting variation across states and municipalities in the timing and details of midwifery laws introduced during the period 1900-1940, and using a rich data set that we...
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Childcare expansion and mothers’ employment in post-socialist countries : a range of other policies and changes are needed for childcare expansion to increase mothers’ labor supply...
Lovász, Anna - 2016
In 2002, the EU set targets for expanding childcare coverage, but most of the post-socialist countries are behind schedule. While childcare expansion places a heavy financial burden on governments, low participation in the labor force by mothers, especially those with children under the age of...
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