infonet-economy

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But
are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center - based care is severely rationed and use within state differences in child care supply as…

How do maternal work conditions, such as psychological stress and physical hazards, affect children's development? Combining data from the Child-Development-Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Occupational Information Network allows us to shed some light on this question. We employ various techniques including OLS with extensive controls, a value added…

As any empirical method used for causal analysis, social experiments are prone to attrition which may flaw the validity of the results. This paper considers the problem of partially missing outcomes in experiments. Firstly, it systematically reveals under which forms of attrition - in terms of its relation to observable and/or unobservable factors - experiments do (not) yield causal…

The author examines the extent to which mothers are willing to trade wages for job flexibility within the context of maternity leave. The key aspect of this framework is that mothers can decide whether and when to return to their guaranteed job. In contrast to previous studies that analyze the job search of employed workers, this model does not need to observe the wage/amenity offer…