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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8613 Javier García-Manglano
Natalia Nollenberger
Almudena Sevilla
Gender, Time-Use, and Fertility Recovery in Industrialized Countries
This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed world. We review the theoretical foundations for this link, and assess the existing ...
(published in: International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, 2015)
J1, J11, J13
8612 Wolfgang Auer
Natalia Danzer
Fixed-Term Employment and Fertility: Evidence from German Micro Data
We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility outcomes. We focus on the career start since we expect that temporary contracts and ...
(revised version published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2016, 62 (4), 595-623)
J13, J18, J41
8610 Matthias Doepke
Gary Becker on the Quantity and Quality of Children
This paper reviews Gary Becker's contributions to the economic analysis of fertility, from his 1960 paper introducing the quantity-quality tradeoff to later work linking the economics of fertility to ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81(1), 59-66)
J13, O10, O40
8609 Petter Lundborg
Erik Plug
Astrid Würtz Rasmussen
Fertility Effects on Female Labor Supply: IV Evidence from IVF Treatments
This paper introduces a new IV strategy based on IVF induced fertility variation in childless families to estimate the causal effect of having children on female labor supply using IVF treated women ...
(published as "Can Women Have Children and a Career? IV Evidence from IVF Treatments" in: American Economic Review, June 2017, 107 (6), 1611-37)
J13, J22
8608 Emilia Del Bono
Marco Francesconi
Yvonne Kelly
Amanda Sacker
Early Maternal Time Investment and Early Child Outcomes
Using large longitudinal survey data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, this paper estimates the effect of maternal time inputs on early child development. We find that maternal time is a ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126(596), F96-F135)
J24, J15, I20
8607 Delia Furtado
Fertility Responses of High-Skilled Native Women to Immigrant Inflows
While there is debate regarding the magnitude of the impact, immigrant inflows are generally understood to depress wages and increase employment in immigrant-intensive sectors. In light of the ...
(published in: Demography, 2016, 53 (1), 27-53)
D10, F22, J13, J22, R23
8606 Wang-Sheng Lee
Big and Tall: Is there a Height Premium or Obesity Penalty in the Labor Market?
Previous studies have shown that both height and weight are associated with wages. However, by focusing on interpreting the partial effects of either height or weight on wages while holding all else ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Big and Tall: Does a Height Premium Dwarf an Obesity Penalty in the Labor Market?' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2017, 27, 289-304.)
J31, J71
8605 Margaret Maurer-Fazio
Lei Lei
"As Rare as a Panda": How Facial Attractiveness, Gender, and Occupation Affect Interview Callbacks at Chinese Firms
This study explores how both gender and facial attractiveness affect job candidates' chances of obtaining interviews in China's dynamic Internet job board labor market. It examines how discrimination ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36(1), 68-85)
C93, J71, J23, O53
8603 Solomon Polachek
Jun Xiang
The Gender Pay Gap Across Countries: A Human Capital Approach
The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and Sweden earn 80% as much as males, whereas in Austria, Canada and Japan women earn ...
(published in: Esther Redmount (ed.), The Economics of the Family: How the Household Affects Markets and Economic Growth, 2014, 2, 27-66.)
J3, J7, I3, H8, F55
8602 Luca Flabbi
Mario Macis
Andrea Moro
Fabiano Schivardi
Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Gender Gaps and Firm Performance
We analyze a matched employer-employee panel data set and find that female leadership has a positive effect on female wages at the top of the distribution, and a negative one at the bottom. Moreover, ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (622), 2390-2423)
M5, M12, J7, J16
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