| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w23793
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 23793
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| Can Financial Incentives Reduce the Baby Gap? Evidence from a Reform in Maternity Leave Benefits |
| Anna Raute
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| 发表日期 | 2017-09-11
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| 出版年 | 2017
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | 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 for higher educated and higher earning women to have a child. In particular, I use the large differential changes in maternity leave benefits across education and income groups to estimate the effects on fertility up to 5 years post reform. In addition to demonstrating an up to 22% increase in the fertility of tertiary educated versus low educated women, I find a positive, statistically significant effect of increased benefits on fertility, driven mainly by women at the middle and upper end of the education and income distributions. Overall, the results suggest that earnings-dependent maternity leave benefits, which compensate women commensurate with their opportunity cost of childbearing, could successfully reduce the fertility rate disparity related to mothers’ education and earnings. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics
; Demography and Aging
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23793
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/581467
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