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Hamermesh, Daniel S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Using time-diary data from the U.S. and six wealthy European countries, I demonstrate that non-partnered mothers spend slightly less time performing childcare, but much less time in other household activities than partnered mothers. Unpartnered mothers' total work time--paid work and household...

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Widows' Time, Time Stress and Happiness : Adjusting to Loss

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current Population Survey allow inferring the short- and longer-term effects of an arguably exogenous...

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Race and Gender Pay Differentials

Blau, Francine D. - 1992

In this paper we review research findings from the 1980s and early 1990s on race and gender pay gaps. In addition. we present some evidence from the Current Population Surveys (1972, 1982 and 1989) regarding the impact of shifts in the industrial composition of employment and in interindustry...

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Lock-downs, Loneliness and Life Satisfaction

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2020

their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases … happiness may have been increased compared to before the lock-downs; but sufficiently large losses of work time and income … reverse this inference. Simulations demonstrate clearly that, assuming lock-downs impose solitude on singles, their happiness …

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"Beauty Is the Promise of Happiness"?

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011

We measure the impact of individuals' looks on life satisfaction/happiness. Using five data sets, from the U.S., Canada … beauty. Beauty raises happiness: A one standard-deviation change in beauty generates about 0.10 standard deviations of … additional satisfaction/happiness among men, 0.12 among women. Accounting for a wide variety of covariates, particularly effects …

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The US Gender Pay Gap in the 1990s : Slowing Convergence

Blau, Francine D. - 2004

We use data from the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to study the slowdown in the convergence of female and male wages in the 1990s compared to the 1980s. We found that changes in human capital did not contribute to the trends, since women improved their relative human capital to...

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The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Boboshko, Nikolai; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has fallen since 1981. Previous research has found divergent results across techniques, identification strategies, data sets, and time periods. Using Michigan Panel Study of Income...

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Gender and Youth Employment Outcomes : The US and West Germany, 1984-91

Blau, Francine D. - 1997

This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany during the 1984-91 period. We find that young, less educated American men and especially women are far less likely to be employed than their German counterparts. Moreover, less...

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The Impact of Wage Structure on Trends in U.S. Gender Wage Differentials 1975-1987

Blau, Francine D. - 1994

and a rising level of wage inequality. This paper uses Michigan Panel Study on Income Dynamics (PSID) data for 1975 and …

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Is There Still Son Preference in the United States?

Blau, Francine D. - 2017

In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe Dahl and Moretti's (2008) son preference results, which found evidence that having a female first child increased the probability of single female headship and raised fertility. In light of the substantial...

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