Effects of early childhood intervention on fertility and maternal employment: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Sandner, Malte

doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2018.11.003

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“…The preference for mental health (α 2 ) is identified by variation in the degree to which individuals are willing to consume costly treatments across the distribution of mental health states. 24 Preferences for employment are identified by the popularity of working part-time and full-time given the amount of income that the model predicts for these types of employment and preferences for consumption of income (determined by the CRRA parameter). Because treatment alternatives have a pecuniary cost, the CRRA parameter is identified by variation in treatment choices across the income distribution.…”

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Mental Health, Human Capital and Labor Market Outcomes

2017

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There are two primary treatment alternatives available to those with mild to moderate depression or anxiety: psychotherapy and medication. The medical literature and our analysis suggests that in many cases psychotherapy, or a combination of therapy and medication, is more curative than medication alone. However, few individuals choose to use psychotherapy. We develop and estimate a dynamic model in which individuals make sequential medical treatment and labor supply decisions while jointly managing mental health and human capital. The results shed light on the relative importance of several drawbacks to psychotherapy that explain patients' reluctance to use it: (1) therapy has high time costs, which vary with an individual's opportunity cost of time and flexibility of the work schedule; (2) therapy is less standardized than medication, which results in uncertainty about its productivity for a given individual; and (3) therapy is expensive. The estimated model is used to simulate the impacts of counterfactual policies that alter the costs associated with psychotherapy.

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Mental Health, Human Capital and Labor Market Outcomes

2017

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“…We also calculate the CEV separately for different ages and for two permanent income groups: high-income individuals who have an earnings index e j above the median level of their age group, and low-income individuals who have an earnings index below the median. 24 As shown in Figure 8(a), the reform benefits individuals of all ages in both 22 Direct government spending is held fixed throughout the experiments. 23 We calculate this as lifetime utility reform −utility from bequests benchmark lifetime utility benchmark −utility from bequests benchmark…”

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The effects of collecting income taxes on Social Security benefits

Jones

2018

Journal of Public Economics

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Since 1983, Social Security benefits have been subject to income taxation, a provision that can significantly increase the marginal income tax rate for older individuals. To assess the impact of this tax, we construct and calibrate a detailed life-cycle model of labor supply, saving, and Social Security claiming. We find that in a long-run stationary environment, replacing the taxation of Social Security benefits with a revenue-equivalent change in the payroll tax would increase labor supply, consumption, and welfare. From an ex-ante perspective an equally desirable reform would be to make the portion of benefits subject to income taxes completely independent of other income.

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“…The target group were pregnant first-time mothers and/or their partners who received social welfare or unemployment benefits, had an income that qualified them for social welfare benefits, or had excessive debt. Sandner (2015) concludes that the program decreased maternal employment, but increased life satisfaction and fertility rates. He argues that the program increased mothers' knowledge of welfare spending.…”

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HR Policies and Maternal Labor Supply

Schneider¹

2017

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Percent of persons per age group Mothers Women without children Source: BMFSFJ (2012b, p. 16) 2 The median is often regarded as a more robust measurement to investigate income differences due to the possible minimizing of extreme values at both ends, while the mean is sensitive to any single value being too high or too low compared to the rest of the sample (Khander et al, 2010). 35 to 40 40 to 45 45 to 50 more than 50 Percent of mothers with certain working hours per week Actual working time of mothers Preferred working time of mothers

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Effects of early childhood intervention on fertility and maternal employment: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Cited by 22 publications

References 67 publications

Mental Health, Human Capital and Labor Market Outcomes

Mental Health, Human Capital and Labor Market Outcomes

The effects of collecting income taxes on Social Security benefits

HR Policies and Maternal Labor Supply

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