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Gender inequality in COVID-19 times : evidence from UK prolific participants
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020 - Revised version: 12December2020
and housework more than men. Neither the gender gaps in COVID-19-related health and economic concerns nor the gender gaps … find that the gender gap in mental health can be partially accounted for by the difference in COVID-19-related health …We investigate gender differences across multiple dimensions after three months of the first UK lockdown of March 2020 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391050
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How Did Veterans Fare Over the COVID-19 Pandemic? the Role of Health Equity and Access to Care
Makridis, Christos; Darden, Michael; Alterovitz, Gil - 2022
Historically, United States Veterans have represented an at-risk group for a variety of social ailments, including homelessness, disability, depression, anxiety, substance use disorder, and suicide, among others. This paper presents descriptive evidence on the economic and subjective well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030765
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Health risk factors among the older European populations : personal and country effects
García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, Shoshana; Neuman, Tzahi - 2014
It is now common to use the individual's self-assessed-health-status (SAHS) as a measure of health. The use of SAHS is … 2011 wave of the rich Survey of Health Aging and Retirement Europe (SHARE) is used for the exploration of the full spectrum … of factors behind the health-status in 16 European countries, focusing on behavioral risk factors (smoking, alcohol …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413782
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Health Risk Factors Among the Older European Populations : Personal and Country Effects
García-Muñoz, Teresa - 2014
It is now common to use the individual's self-assessed-health-status (SAHS) as a measure of health. The use of SAHS is … 2011 wave of the rich Survey of Health Aging and Retirement Europe (SHARE) is used for the exploration of the full spectrum … of factors behind the health-status in 16 European countries, focusing on behavioral risk factors (smoking, alcohol …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045071
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The competitive saving motive : concept, evidence, and implications
Wei, Shang-jin; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2015
partners. Here are some of the key results of the recent literature: (i) cross-country evidence show that greater gender … unmarried daughters appear uncorrelated with gender imbalances; and (b) savings rates of families in cities tend to rise with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388451
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Initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment and hours of self- employed coupled and single workers by gender and parental status
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2020
, differential effects by gender, couple status, and parental status exist. Coupled women were less likely to be working than coupled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244813
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Women's work and family profiles over the lifecourse and their subsequent health outcomes : evidence for Europe
Leoni, Thomas; Eppel, Rainer - 2013
The reconciliation of family and work is one of the "new social risks" contemporary welfare states are challenged to … address. This paper contributes to a better understanding of the roles of work and family in women's life trajectories … patterns, we investigate the possible link that exists between these work-family profiles up to the age of 50 and subsequent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010432471
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Gender, time-use, and fertility recovery in industrialized countries
García-Manglano, Javier; Nollenberger, Natalia; … - 2014
which family units (and women within families) remain primarily responsible for familial care obligations, and where the … industrialized countries, we hint at the existence of a threshold ratio of gender equity in the distribution of domestic work that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434614
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The Influence of Wages on Parents' Allocations of Time to Child Care and Market Work in the United Kingdom
Kalenkoski, Charlene M. - 2006
We use time-diary data on couples with children from the 2000 United Kingdom Time Use Survey to examine the impacts of own and partner's wages on parents' provision of child care and market work on weekdays and on weekends and holidays. We find that increases in partners' wages increase women's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779030
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The Effect of Family Structure on Parents' Child Care Time in the United States and the United Kingdom
Kalenkoski, Charlene M. - 2006
estimate the effect of family structure on the time mothers and fathers spend on primary and passive child care and on market … work, using a system of correlated Tobit equations and family structure equations. Estimates from these models indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779029