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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8486 Pernilla Andersson Joona
Female Self-Employment and Children: The Case of Sweden
Previous studies, mostly from Anglo-Saxon countries, find a positive correlation between the presence of young children in the household and self-employment probabilities among women. This has been ...
(revised version published as 'Are mothers of young children more likely to be self-employed? The case of Sweden' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15, 307 - 333)
J22, L26, J13
8485 Chris M. Herbst
Are Parental Welfare Work Requirements Good for Disadvantaged Children? Evidence from Age-of-Youngest-Child Exemptions
This paper assesses the short-run impact of first-year maternal employment on low-income children's cognitive development. The identification strategy exploits an important feature of the U.S.'s ...
(published in:Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 2017, 36 (2), 327 - 357)
I38, J2
8483 Rachel Heath
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women
We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 115, 1-15)
O12, F16, I25, J23
8482 Nico Pestel
Beyond Inequality Accounting: Marital Sorting and Couple Labor Supply
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing ...
(published as 'Marital Sorting, Inequality and the Role of Female Labour Supply: Evidence from East and West Germany' in: Economica , 2017, 84 (333), 104-127 )
D31, D63, J12, J22
8480 Shoshana Grossbard
Victoria Vernon
Common Law Marriage and Couple Formation
The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US-born adults live in couples in the U.S. CLM effects are identified through cross-state ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 3:16 )
J10, J12, J16
8479 Mizuki Komura
Hikaru Ogawa
Pension and the Family
The effects of pension policies on fertility have been examined in the overlapping generations (OLG) model of unitary household in which no heterogeneity exists between the wife and the husband. This ...
(published as 'Pay-as-you-go pension, bargaining power, and fertility' in: FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis, 2018, 74 (2), 235 - 259)
H55, J12, J13
8478 Astrid Kunze
The Family Gap in Career Progression
This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because of children. We use 1987-1997 Norwegian panel data that contain information on ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2015, Volume 41, 115-142.)
J1, J6, M5
8477 Carlos Felipe Balcázar
Hugo R. Nopo
Broken Gears: The Value Added of Higher Education on Teachers' Academic Achievement
A growing literature establishes that good teachers are essential for high quality educational systems. However, little is known about teachers' skills formation during their college years. In this ...
(published in: Higher Education, 2016, 72 (3), 341–361)
I2, I21, J24
8475 Adriana Di Liberto
Fabiano Schivardi
Giovanni Sulis
Managerial Practices and Students' Performance
We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2015, 30 (84), 683-728)
L2, I2, M1, O32
8470 Alexander K. Koch
Julia Nafziger
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Behavioral Economics of Education
During the last decade knowledge about human behavior from psychology and sociology has enhanced the field of economics of education. By now research recognizes cognitive skills (as measured by ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 3-17.)
D03, I20
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