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Temperature and Joint Time Use
Cosaert, Sam; Nieto Castro, Adrian; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2023
We combine exogenous variation in temperature at the county-day level in the U.S. with daily time use data to examine the effect of temperature on joint time use. We show that low temperatures reduce time spent with friends but increase time spent with family. Conversely, high temperatures...
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Culture and Gender Allocation of Tasks : Source Country Characteristics and the Division of Non-Market Work Among US Immigrants
Blau, Francine D. - 2020
-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum's Global …
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The Summer Drop in Female Employment
Price, Brendan M.; Wasserman, Melanie - 2022
We provide the first systematic account of summer declines in women’s labor market activity. From May to July, the employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women’s total hours worked fall by 11 percent, twice...
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Time Use, Unemployment, and Well-Being : An Empirical Analysis Using British Time-Use Data
Hoang, Thi Truong An - 2019
persons report substantially lower levels of life satisfaction than employed persons. When looking at specific types of …
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Parental Time Restrictions and the Cost of Children : Insights from a Survey Among Mothers
Borah, Melanie - 2019
In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental time restrictions. Building on a study by Koulovatianos et al. (2009) that introduces a novel way of using subjective income evaluation data for such estimations, we conduct a...
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A Public Good Version of the Collective Household Model : An Empirical Approach with an Application to British Household Data
Klaveren, Chris van; van Praag, B.M.S; Maassen van den … - 2021
In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for two-earner households. The novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collective household model, where the internally produced goods and the externally purchased goods are assumed to be...
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On Time and Money Donations
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Ghinetti, Paolo; Turati, Gilberto - 2021
This paper investigates the determinants of time and money gifts. We first develop a behavioural model which accounts for both types of donations, as well as for decisions about domestic and market hours of work. We then investigate the issue empirically, using survey data for Italy. Results...
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Time Savings When Working from Home
Aksoy, Cevat; Barrero, Jose; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, … - 2023
We quantify the commute time savings associated with work from home, drawing on data for 27 countries. The average daily time savings when working from home is 72 minutes in our sample. We estimate that work from home saved about two hours per week per worker in 2021 and 2022, and that it will...
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Child Health, Parental Well-Being, and the Social Safety Net
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Daysal, N. Meltem; Gunnsteinsson, … - 2023
How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate negative economic effects through transfers to affected families? We study these questions by combining the universe of cancer diagnoses among Danish children with register data...
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The Baby Year Parental Leave Reform in the GDR and its Impact on Children's Long-Term Life Satisfaction
Heisig, Katharina - 2019
-- on children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic … robust positive parental leave effects on life satisfaction. We also analyze whether the increase in life satisfaction is … the increase in life satisfaction might be partially explained by personality development for individuals from low …
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