gender differences in the labour market. We find that household characteristics, rather than alternative explanations such as …With the use of panel data constructed from the 1995 and 1997 Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys, this paper … explores the sectoral reallocation of labour by gender. In Bulgaria, men and women started the transition on an almost equal …

important in explaining the division of labor in the home, often given as a cause for the gender wage gap. Indeed, as fertility … diminished leading to less division of labor in the home and a smaller gender wage disparity. Unlike other models of division of …

-earners. About 24% of American women in dual-earner households earned more than their husband in 2004. Using a model of household … may also come into play. Our empirical model specifies spouse labour-market participation equations within each household …

’consumption expenditure patterns. We find some differences in consumption patterns which relate to differences in gender of …

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature … suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while … spouses within each household, allowing for corner solutions and correlations in the unobservables across the system of six …

The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision …

-poverty program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …

-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We … do so by combining household data with population census and village survey records. Our results show that conditional on … own household income, respondents report higher satisfaction levels when they experience an increase in their income over …