Arbeitspapier
Parental Leave Benefit and Differential Fertility Responses: Evidence from a German Reform
This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefits on fertility. I use the unanticipated reform of 2007 to assess how a move from a means-tested to an earnings-related benefit affects higher-order births. By using data from the Mikrozensus, I find that the reform significantly affected the timing of higher-order births. Overall, mothers “just” affected by the reform initially reduce subsequent childbearing and start to compensate by the end of the third year. The negative effects are largely driven by lowest-income mothers, who are now worse-off and do not display any catch-up effects.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 5397
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Demographic Economics: Public Policy
Demand and Supply of Labor: General
Family and Personal Law
- Thema
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fertility
family policy
reform
parental leave
Germany
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Cygan-Rehm, Kamila
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2015
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Cygan-Rehm, Kamila
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2015
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