Hanno Foerster

Protection for whom? The political economy of protective labor laws for women While presented as measures to safeguard women’s health labor laws banning night work or limiting the amount of weight a woman could lift often restricted women’s access to employment...

Male concerns about labor market competition from women played a key role in the rise & fall of "protective" labor laws that often limited women's jobs.

Op-ed based on IZA DP by @mdoepke.bsky.social‬ @hannofoerster.bsky.social‬ @annehannusch.bsky.social‬ & M. Tertilt 👇
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Protection for Whom? The Political Economy of Protective Labor Laws for Women Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

New work from HCEO members @mdoepke.bsky.social and Michele Tertilt examines the drivers behind so-called protective labor laws for women. Hint: It wasn’t women who were being protected. With @hannofoerster.bsky.social and @annehannusch.bsky.social. www.nber.org/papers/w33720

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Very excited that my JMP on the welfare implications of child support and alimony got accepted @reveconstudies.bsky.social! Huge thanks to my advisors, Michèle Tertilt and Gerard van den Berg, to the editor @sorrytobekurt.bsky.social and everyone who provided feedback at various stages of the paper!

``Child support and alimony provide insurance to divorcees, enable couples to specialize, but distort divorcees' incentives. Optimal policy analysis in a life-cycle model, estimated with Danish register data.”

New paper from Hanno Foerster @hannofoerster.bsky.social:

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