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Autor/in | Raute, Anna |
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Institution | CESifo GmbH |
Titel | Can financial incentives reduce the baby gap? Evidence from a reform in maternity leave benefits. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Können finanzielle Anreize den Geburtenrückgang verringern? Erkenntnisse aus einer Reform des Elterngelds. |
Quelle | München (2017), 54 S.
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Reihe | CESifo working paper. 6652 |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | online; Monographie |
ISSN | 2364-1428 |
Schlagwörter | Generatives Verhalten; Geburtenentwicklung; Kinderzahl; Mutter; Frau; Elterngeld; Familienpolitik; Erziehungsgeld; Fruchtbarkeit; Reformpolitik; Qualifikationsniveau; Altern; Alter |
Abstract | "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." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku). |
Erfasst von | Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg |
Update | 2018/1 |