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Who Does What in a Household after Genocide?: Evidence from Rwanda

Schindler, Kati - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This paper investigates the determinants of intra-household time allocation in post-war Rwanda. A decade after the 1994 genocide, Rwanda still bears the demographic impact of the war, in which at least 800,000 people died and the majority of casualties were adult males. The paper explores two...

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The Impact of International Migration and Remittances on the Labor-Supply Behavior of Those Left behind: Evidence from Egypt

Binzel, Christine; Assaad, Ragui - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

We analyze in this paper the impact of male-dominated migration and remittance income on the participation and hours worked decisions of adults left behind, including the hours spent by women in subsistence and domestic work. We differentiate between a 'pure' migration ("M") effect and the joint...

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Do Ethnic Minorities "Stretch" Their Time?: Evidence from the UK Time Use Survey

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This paper investigates the effect of ethnicity on time spent on overlapped household production, work and leisure activities employing the 2000-2001 UK Time Use Survey. We find that, unconditionally, white females manage to "stretch" their time the most by an additional 233 minutes per day and...

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Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor 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 labor force participation of females from...

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Ten Do It Better, Do They?: An Empirical Analysis of an Old Football Myth

Caliendo, Marco; Radic, Dubravko - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

In this paper we investigate how the expulsion of a player influences the out-come of a football match. Common sense … implies a negative impact for the affected team. However, an old football myth suggests that such an expulsion might also be …

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The Effects of Conflict on Fertility in Rwanda

Schindler, Kati; Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

The aim of this paper is to study the short and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different … genocide on fertility, with a strong replacement effect for lost children. Having lost siblings reduces fertility only in the … short term. Most interesting is the continued importance of the institution of marriage in determining fertility and in …

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A Multilevel Analysis of Child Care and the Transition to Motherhood in Western Germany

Hank, Karsten; Kreyenfeld, Michaela - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

In this paper, we take a multilevel perspective to investigate the role of child care in the transition to motherhood in Germany. We argue that in the European institutional context the availability of public day care and informal child care arrangements should be a central element of the local...

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The Impact of Children on Female Earnings in Britain

Viitanen, Tarja K. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

participation and fertility. The wage differential between women without children and women with children is estimated to range … differential reduces to 16%-18% instrumenting participation and fertility, however, using the estimates obtained from the double …

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Gender-Specific Effects of Unemployment on Family Formation: A Cross-National Perspective

Schmitt, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I analyze unemployment at the intersection of state-dependence...

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Regional Social Contexts and Individual Fertility Decisions: A Multilevel Analysis of First and Second Births in Western Germany

Hank, Karsten - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

This paper investigates whether and how regional social contexts influence fertility decisions of women living in … for the transition to the first and second child. The empirical analysis provides no evidence that fertility differentials …

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