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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"maternal labor supply"”.
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Essays in Labor Economics
… studies two distinct issues in the field of labor economics: the labor supply of new mothers and firms' adjustments to changing labor costs. In both cases, I study the effect of labor market policies, both because they provide quasi-exogenous variation in otherwise endogenous variables of …
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Empirical essays on health care for children and families
… child health care utilization in relation to maternal labor supply. We test the hypothesis that working-mothers trade off the advantages of greater income against the disadvantages of less time for other valuable tasks, such as seeking health care for their children. This tradeoff may result …
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Essays on migration, entrepreneurship, and parental investment
… gender on parental investments to children and labor market outcomes in two-parent families with one child. Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, I document a son premium on the intensive margin of both paternal and maternal labor supply that is conditional on the child’s age. …
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Essays on childhood obesity
… side effects. In the third essay, “The Impact of Maternal Employment on Children’s Adiposity: Evidence from the China’s Labor Policy Reform”, we provide new evidence on the effect of maternal employment on childhood adiposity using the longitudinal survey data from the China Health and Nutrition …
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Essays in Child Care Quality
… three topics in child care quality, mother's labor supply, and early childhood development. In the first study, we evaluate how child care quality influences the potential impacts of mothers' labor supply on child development. Although, previous studies have acknowledged the importance of the …