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-Mao reforms in China to estimate the effects of total income and sex-specific income on sex ratios of surviving children. The … survival rates for girls. Moreover, increasing the mother's income increases educational attainment for all children, while …
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En este artículo se analizan y discuten los avances en la valorización y visibilización de la economía del cuidado (trabajo no remunerado) en América Latina, haciendo énfasis en las mujeres rurales. Al caracterizar las diferencias en el uso del tiempo entre hombres y mujeres, entre zonas...
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number of children born per woman. However, almost no work exists measuring the fertility behavior of men. In this paper we … this is not the case. Comparing completed fertility by birth cohorts, we find that on average men have more children than … women in four out of the six countries we consider. The gaps are large – reaching up to 4.6 children in Burkina Faso for the …
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Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labour supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labour force participation of females...
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satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men … and women from the British Household Panel Survey. We find that men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they … work full-time without overtime hours but neither their job satisfaction nor their life satisfaction are affected by how …
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-time. We analyze the relationship between part-time work and life satisfaction, and between job satisfaction and preferred … working hours using panel data on life and job satisfaction for a sample of partnered women and men. We also utilize time … hypothesis in this context. Our main results indicate that partnered women in part-time work have high levels of job satisfaction …
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There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. In some countries where labour markets are...
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The purpose of this Paper is to investigate wage structures of professional workers in the Israeli labour market, using data from the most recent 1995 Census and correcting for selectivity at the stage of entrance into the occupation. The sample of professionals is decomposed into several...
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Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from competition. Our subjects (students just under 15 years of age) attend publicly-funded single-sex and coeducational schools. We find robust differences between the competitive...
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Women and men may differ in their propensity to choose a risky outcome because of innate preferences or because pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes encourages girls and boys to modify their innate preferences. Single-sex environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking preferences...
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