Michèle Tertilt’s research while affiliated with University of Mannheim and other places

... One study presents a model for e-commerce platforms to determine when to introduce consumer credit services and share them with third-party sellers, revealing that sharing services can benefit both parties under certain conditions but may reduce consumer surplus [13]. In another related study, cognitive biases in borrowers, especially over-optimism, are shown to lead to financial mistakes, with the study proposing policy solutions like financial literacy education and reducing default costs to improve welfare, although the results are mixed [14]. Additionally, research on buy now, pay later (BNPL) services highlights their significant impact on consumer financial behavior, influencing the likelihood of adopting other credit options and shaping broader financial decision making [15]. ...

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The Mutual Impact of Suppliers’ Online Sales Channel Choices and Platform Credit Decisions for Offline Channels

... between the burden of household tutoring expenditures and fertility rates, suggesting how educational tax policies could be designed to boost fertility (Kim et al., 2024a). ...

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The tutoring trap: Educational competition and its impact on family size in China

... Any discussion of this subject is stiffened because both these fundamental factors operate throughout the demographic shift and have effects other than ageing [1,22,30]. Lee and Mason [23] pointed out that this change in demographics considering the rise of the ageing population, is inversely connected to the drop in fertility rate as a root cause of the issue of women entering the workforce [7] explores the complex relationship between female labor supply and fertility rates, highlighting the substantial influence that shifts in female labor force participation can have on fertility choices. It emphasizes that decisions about fertility may change if more women join the workforce. ...

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Ageing affecting the Americas?: exploring the growth direction: the relationship between the elderly population and economic growth in the American context

... This reasoning may extend to family policies, as family support is understood to especially benefit single working mothers, among whom African American mothers would be over-represented (see Complementary insight on the adoption of family policies can be gained from work on the origin of women's rights. Tertilt et al. (2022) discuss their economic and political origins, ranging from civil rights and the control over their own bodies, to equal treatment in the labor market. One view is that cultural change contributes to evolving attitudes towards women's rights, which eventually become adopted by (mostly male) legislators. ...

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Families, Labor Markets, and Policy

... The available records and literature were nevertheless very scanty despite women's positions and activities which led them, to play such a vital role in any society. However, some women in other parts of the world made significant contributions to the economic development of their society but were not publicized [1], [2]. ...

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Economic Rights of Women Under Sokoto Caliphate: A Lesson for Contemporary Women in Nigeria

... This may reflect a nonlinear relationship between intelligence and reproductive success, with rare damaging variants being more predictive at the lower end of the intelligence spectrum. More recently, the relationship between SES and reproductive success, which seems to be nonlinear and sex-specific, seems to be reverting back to an overall positive one, both within and between a number of high-income countries; this is probably driven by multiple factors, such as an increased compatibility between women's careers and families due to more favourable family policies and social norms, cooperative fathers, and more flexible labour markets [109][110][111] . ...

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Socio-economic status is a social construct with heritable components and genetic consequences

... Correspondingly, Gummerson et al. (2021) report a high share of partial or complete income loss among women in four African countries during the first months of the pandemic with severe restrictions in place. Studying Nigeria during the pandemic, Alon et al. (2022) find that women's employment decreased more than men's during the early stage of the pandemic, with a particular large negative impact on women with school-aged children. However, Alon et al. (2022) further find that women also experienced a stronger rebound of their employment than men at the beginning of 2021, suggesting that employment losses in low-income countries are less persistent than in high-income countries. ...

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Female schooling, fertility, and labor supply in four African countries before and during COVID-19

... Likewise, in some LMICs, women were more likely to experience job losses and reductions in employment hours than men (Seck et al. 2021). However, in other countries, including many of those in MENA, women were not as heavily concentrated in service sectors at high risk of pandemic-related job losses (Alon, Doepke, and Manysheva 2022;International Labour Organization 2020;UNDP 2021). Rather, high shares of women were employed in education and healthcare, 'essential' sectors where the public sector plays a strong role and where healthcare saw an increase in demand during the pandemic (Ilkkaracan et al. 2020;UNDP 2021). ...

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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s care work and employment in the Middle East and North Africa

... The greatest sudden change occurred in early 2020 when many governments worldwide implemented lockdown procedures, which resulted in the closure of schools, day cares, and businesses and a shift to remote learning and telecommuting work for many individuals, including academic researchers. Research conducted in the United States and several western European countries demonstrated that these measures greatly impacted households with young children (Biroli et al., 2021;Carlson et al., 2022;Del Boca et al., 2020;Farré et al., 2022;Feng & Savani, 2020;Flor et al., 2022;Hupkau & Petrongolo, 2020;Mangiavacchi et al., 2021;Sevilla & Smith, 2020), and in general, women had the largest burden of additional child care responsibilities (Albanesi & Kim, 2021;Alon et al., 2020Alon et al., , 2022Collins et al., 2021). ...

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Gender Imbalance in Citation Practices in Communication Sciences and Disorders Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

... Finally, our paper also relates to the studies that distinguish between the sign of the income-fertility relationship across income/skill groups and that within each income/skill group by exploring a mechanism based on a composition effect; see, e.g., Doepke et al. (2023); Strulik (2024a). We complement this literature by using a dynamic model with fertility and education choices and automation to explicitly address the time-series evidence of a (relatively) high but falling birth rate among low-skilled households and a low but increasing birth rate among high-skilled households (see Figure 1). ...

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Automation, Education, and Population: Dynamic Effects in an OLG Growth and Fertility Model