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Women's earning power and the "double burden" of market and household work
Chen, Natalie; Conconi, Paola; Perroni, Carlo - 2007
should experience a comparative gain within their marriage. However, if renegotiation possibilities are limited by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628813
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Women's Earning Power and the 'Double Burden' of Market and Household Work
Chen, Natalie; Conconi, Paola; Perroni, Carlo - 2008
should experience a comparative gain within their marriage. However, if renegotiation possibilities are limited by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220112
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Women’s Earning Power and the “Double Burden” of Market and Household Work
Chen, Natalie; Conconi, Paola; Perroni, Carlo - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2007
should experience a comparative gain within their marriage. However, if renegotiation possibilities are limited by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005747183
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Social Mobility, Life Chances, and the Early Years
Waldfogel, Jane - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2004
It is widely agreed that the early years are a particularly important time for efforts to increase social mobility, because a good deal of inequality is already apparent by the time children start school, and because children's development may be less amenable to change after they enter school....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797323
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Social mobility, life chances, and the early years
Waldfogel, Jane - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
It is widely agreed that the early years are a particularly important time for efforts to increase social mobility, because a good deal of inequality is already apparent by the time children start school, and because children’s development may be less amenable to change after they enter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126160
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Intergenerational earnings mobility in Japan among sons and daughters : levels and trends
Lefranc, Arnaud; Ojima, Fumiaki; Yoshida, Takashi - 2012
This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between 1935 and 1975. Our estimates rely on a two-sample instrumental variables approach using representative data from the Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675517
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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Japan Among Sons and Daughters : Levels and Trends
Lefranc, Arnaud - 2012
This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between 1935 and 1975. Our estimates rely on a two-sample instrumental variables approach using representative data from the Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096460
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Structural Estimates of the Intergenerational Education Correlation
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jorgen - 2021
Using a structural dynamic programming model, we investigate the relative importance of family background variables and individual specific abilities in explaining cross-sectional differences in schooling attainments and wages. Given scholastic ability, household background variables (especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319577
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What Role Does Marriage Play in Urban Africa? Evidence from a High HIV Area in Kenya
Luke, Nancy; Munshi, Kaivan D. - 2010
the link between marriage and sexual activity on a sample of migrants in the town of Kisumu, Western Kenya, which reported … remittances among the migrants (after instrumenting), consistent with the view that marriage improves labor market outcomes and …The marriage institution, which plays an important role in regulating sexual activity in most societies, traditionally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081757
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A biological basis for the gender wage gap : fecundity and age and educational hypogamy
Polachek, Solomon W.; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - 2014
This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419016