University and The Empirical Evaluation of Labour Market Programmes Conference (2008)
Marianne Simonsen, Stefan Bender, Martin Browning, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Michael Lechner, Helena S. Nielsen, ...
Government Studies We estimate the effect of motherhood on wages using matching. We distinguish between net and direct effects. The net effect includes the total wage costs, whereas the direct...
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Government Studies In this paper we characterise the selection into parenthood for men and women separately and estimate effects of motherhood and fatherhood on wages. We ap-ply propensity score...
Does the Gap in Family-Friendly Policies Drive the Family Gap? (2004)
Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Simonsen, Marianne, Verner, Mette
Segregation of the labour market into a family-friendly and a non-family-friendly sector implies that women self-select into sectors depending on institutional constraints, preferences for...
Does the Gap in Family-Friendly Policies Drive the Family Gap?
Helena Skyt Nielsen, Marianne Simonsen, Mette Verner
A segregation of the labour market into a family-friendly and a non-family friendly sector has the effect that women self-select into the sectors depending on institutional constraints, preferences...
Availability and Price of High Quality Day Care and Female Employment
In this paper I analyse to what degree availability and price of high quality publicly subsidised child care affects female employment for women living in couples following maternity leave. The...
Non-Cognitive Child Outcomes and Universal High Quality Child Care
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Marianne Simonsen
Exploiting a rich panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment generating variation in the take-up of pre-school across municipalities, we provide...
Does the Gap in Family-friendly Policies Drive the Family Gap?
Helena Skyt Nielsen, Marianne Simonsen, Mette Verner
Segregation of the labour market into a family-friendly and a non-family-friendly sector implies that women self-select into sectors depending on institutional constraints, preferences for...
The costs of motherhood: an analysis using matching estimators
Lars Skipper, Marianne Simonsen
We estimate the effect of motherhood on wages using matching. We distinguish between net and direct effects. The net effect includes the total wage costs, whereas the direct represents the causal...
Does the Gap in Family-friendly Policies Drive the Family Gap?
Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Simonsen, Marianne, Verner, Mette
A segregation of the labour market into a family-friendly and a non-family friendly sector has the effect that women self-select into the sectors depending on institutional constraints, preferences...
The Incidence and Intensity of Formal Lifelong Learning
Marianne Simonsen, Lars Skipper
We exploit a rich high quality register-based employer-employee panel data set to investigate the incidence and intensity of government co-sponsored training for the Danish adult population. We focus...
Non-cognitive Child Outcomes and Universal High Quality Child Care
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Marianne Simonsen
Exploiting a rich panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment generating variation in the take-up of pre-school across municipalities, we provide...
The Family Gap Reconsidered: What Wombmates Reveal
Marianne Simonsen, Lars Skipper
We shed new light on the effects of having children on hourly wages by exploiting access to data on the entire population of employed twins in Denmark. In addition we use administrative data on...
A specification test for the propensity score using its distribution conditional on participation
Shaikh, Azeem M., Simonsen, Marianne, Vytlacil, Edward J., Yildiz, Nese
Propensity score matching has become a popular method for the estimation of average treatment effects. In empirical applications, researchers almost always impose a parametric model for the...