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Making Dough or Baking Dough? Spousal Housework Responsibilities in Germany, 1992-2011
Procher, Vivien; Ritter, Nolan; Vance, Colin - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014
- influence his or her contribution to housework? (2) If so, does the magnitude of this influence differ by gender? and (3) How … important are traditional gender roles on housework allocation? We address these issues by applying panel quantile regression …, with the latter effect being roughly equal across genders. At the same time, traditional gender roles also appear to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860287
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Household Labor Supply and Home Services in a General-Equilibrium Model with Heterogeneous Agents
Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in … and allow agents to trade home labor. This model can generate the observed patterns in US labor supply by gender and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005436116
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You’re Fired! The Causal Negative Effect of Unemployment on Life Satisfaction
Kassenboehmer, Sonja C.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2008
This paper examines the impact of unemployment on life satisfaction for Germany 1984–2006, using a sample of men and women from the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP). Across the board we find large significant negative effects for unemployment on life satisfaction.This paper expands on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561993
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Like Father, Like Son: Inheriting and Bequeathing
Kunze, Lars - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
an estate to their children even after controlling for income, wealth and education. This implies an indirect reciprocal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533920
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P4P, Reputation and the Reduction of Costly Overprovision
Kairies, Nadja - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
We investigate the effect of reputational motivation on output in a scenario of overprovision of medical treatment. We assume that physicians differ in their degree of altruism, enjoy being perceived as good but dislike being perceived as greedy. We show that better reputational motivation...
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Informal Home Care and Labor Force Participation of Household Members
Meng, Annika - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
In Germany, informal home care is preferred to professional care services in the public discussion as well as in legal care regulations. However, they ascribe only minor importance to the opportunity costs care givers have to face. Therefore, this paper explores the influence home care has on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509373
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Capital Taxation, Long-run Growth, and Bequests
Kunze, Lars - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
It has been shown that higher capital taxes can have a growth-enhancing effect when combined with a revenue-compensating cut in wage taxes (Uhlig and Yanagawa 1996; European Economic Review 40, 1521–1540) or with an expansion in productivity-increasing public services (Rivas 2003;European Economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005036047
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The Intensive Margin of Technology Adoption - Experimental Evidence on Improved Cooking Stoves in Rural Senegal
Bensch, Gunther; Peters, Jörg - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014
Today 2.6 billion people in developing countries rely on biomass as primary cooking fuel, with profound negative implications for their well-being. Improved biomass cooking stoves are alleged to counteract these adverse effects. This paper evaluates take-up and impacts of low-cost improved...
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A Recipe for Success? Randomized Free Distribution of Improved Cooking Stoves in Senegal
Bensch, Gunther; Peters, Jörg - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
Today more than 2.7 billion people rely on biomass as their primary cooking fuel, with profound implications for the environment and people’s well-being. Wood provision is often time-consuming and the emitted smoke has severe health effects – both burdens that afflict women in particular....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540946
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Call Me if You Can – An Experimental Investigation of Information Sharing in Knowledge Networks
Helbach, Christoph; Keldenich, Klemens; Rothgang, Michael; … - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
In the public promotion of R&D cluster and network formation, the following situation typically arises: An initial network structure has developed over a long time span and policy measures affect the structure of links between the actors. This new network structure influences the effectiveness...
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