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Impact of maternal employment on children malnutrition status in Bangladesh: an empirical analysis
About 40%, 15%, and 38% of children in Bangladesh are stunted, wasted, and underweight, respectively. This paper explores the causal relationship...
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Regular employment and intergenerational income mobility in Japan
Using 1995 and 2005 Survey of Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM), this paper analyzes the effect of being regularly employed on...
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Access to universal childcare and its effect on maternal employment
Subsidized childcare is a key instrument to support maternal employment in most OECD countries. Using a major reform implemented in Luxembourg in...
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The impact of the COVID-19 recession on Mexican households: evidence from employment and time use for men, women, and children
This study examines changes in labor supply, income, and time allocation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico. Using an event-study design, we show...
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Do means-tested childcare subsidies discourage work?
We examine how means-tested childcare subsidies affect parental labor supply. Using the introduction of reduced childcare prices for low-income...
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Labor Market Institutions and Demographic Employment Patterns
We study collective bargaining’s effect on relative employment for youth, women, and older individuals. Our model of collective wage setting predicts...
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Tem** fates in Spain: hours and employment in a dual labor market during the Great Recession and COVID-19
We investigate the behavior of aggregate hours supplied by workers in permanent (open-ended) contracts and temporary contracts, distinguishing...
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Back to work or stay at home? Family policies and maternal employment in Finland
The employment effects of family policies depend on the mother’s labor market attachment and on the age of the child. We study the effects of child...
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Assessing the Employment Effects of California’s Paid Family Leave Program
Until recently, it was impossible to study how paid family leave mandates would impact employment in the USA. This changed in 2004 when California...
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Fertility cost, grandparental childcare, and female employment
This paper considers the role of grandparental childcare in explaining China’s extraordinarily high female labor market participation rate and low...
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Arts majors and the Great Recession: a cross-sectional analysis of educational choices and employment outcomes
This study uses American Community Survey data to examine the impact of the Great Recession on college graduates majoring in the arts. Arts graduates...
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The Effect of Employment Guarantee Scheme on School Attendance in Rural India
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India guarantees 100 days of wage employment per year to rural households. A burgeoning literature...
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Employment effects of language training for unemployed immigrants
Proficiency in the host country’s language is an important factor for the successful labor market integration of immigrants. In this study, I analyze...
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The impact of minimum wage on parental time allocation to children: evidence from the American Time Use Survey
In this study, using data from the 2003–2019 American Time Use Survey (ATUS), we investigate whether changes in the minimum wage have impacted time...
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Using behavioral insights in early childhood interventions: the effects of Crianza Positiva e-messaging program on parental investment
We study whether an e-messaging program rooted on behavioral economics insights and administered on top of a parenting workshop helps improve...
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Ethnic Employment Gaps of Graduates in the Netherlands
This research documents ethnic employment gaps for labour-market entrants in the Netherlands in the period 2006–2016. We compare short-term and...
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Gender Gaps and Family Leaves in Latin America
Gender equality in the labor market remains a difficult challenge in Latin America and recent literature shows that child penalties play an important...
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Parental well-being in times of Covid-19 in Germany
We examine the effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of...
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How the provision of childcare affects attitudes towards maternal employment
Do childcare institutions affect gender norms of individuals? I examine the introduction of childcare services and their impact on voters’ support of...
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Parenting Behavior and Outcomes for Children
This chapter provides a narrative review of the economic literature analyzing the relationship between parenting and child development. It starts...