研討會總覽
【AEW Webinar】Investments in Children and Child Mental Health
2025/01/23
- 研討會日期 : 2025-01-23
- 時間 : 08:30
- 主講人 : Professor Janet Currie
- 地點 : Register and join online
- 演講者簡介 : Professor Janet Currie received her Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 1988. She is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the Princeton University. Her research interests are Economics of Children and Families, Health Economics, and Labor Economics.
- 演講摘要 : The surgeon general has called the youth mental health crisis the "defining public health crisis of our time." Yet given a paucity of consistently collected data, we know little about the roots of this crisis, its evolution over time, or about the ways that youth mental health may respond to policy interventions. This paper provides an overview of these questions concluding that the crisis is long-standing but that there are effective interventions that can be deployed.
- Working Paper Title : Parental Earnings Trajectories Around Childbirth in Japan: Evidence from Local Tax Records
- Working Paper Speaker : Professor Ayako Kondo
- Working Paper Speaker Biography : Professor Ayako Kondo received her Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in 2009. She is currently a Professor at the University of Tokyo. Her research interests are Public Economics, Labor Economics, and Applied Microeconomics.
- Working Paper Abstract : This study examines the impact of childbirth on parental earnings in Japan, using newly available local tax records from multiple municipalities. By applying an event study specification, we estimate the "child penalty"—the percentage reduction in women's income relative to men's after childbirth. Our results reveal that women's income declines by 60-80% immediately after childbirth and remaining 50% below pre-childbirth levels even four years postpartum, while men experience modest income growth. Moreover, the study also identifies significant heterogeneity in income trajectories, particularly among higher-earning women, some of whom recover their earnings close to their pre-birth levels, whereas others eranings remain significantly below pre-birth levels. Additionally, women with pre-birth earnings were lower than the median tend to exit the workforce or adjust their income below the threshold for dependent spouses.