Changing Fertility and Heterogeneous Motherhood Effects: Revisiting the Effects of a Parental Benefits Reform

Bernd Fitzenberger and Arnim Seidlitz
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Bernd Fitzenberger: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany
Arnim Seidlitz: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany

No 202408, IAB-Discussion Paper from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]

Abstract: "Using a semiparametric event study approach with a control group, we estimate the effect of motherhood on labor market outcomes in Germany, the child penalty. We further investigate how the 2007 parental benefits reform changed the child penalty while accounting for fertility effects. A large novel data set linking data from two administrative sources provides information on all births. Our estimation approach accounts for motherhood being a staggered treatment. The reform has small positive medium-run effects employment outcomes. It changes the selection into fertility and has certain heterogeneous effects. However, the reform did little to reduce the average child penalty." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; IAB-Open-Access-Publikation; Auswirkungen; Beschäftigungseffekte; Elterngeld; Elternzeit; Einkommenseffekte; Elternschaft; Erwerbsbeteiligung; Fruchtbarkeit; Integrierte Erwerbsbiografien; Mütter; Reformpolitik; 2004-2009 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J08 J13 J16 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 58 pages
Date: 2024-06-10
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DOI: 10.48720/IAB.DP.2408

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