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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
There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In particular, we ask if US immigrants allocate tasks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837672
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Is there Still Son Preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D. - 2019
In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe evidence on son preference in the United States. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for natives and immigrants. Dahl and Moretti (2008) found earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858670
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Cyclical Income Risk in Great Britain
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos - 2019
This paper establishes new evidence on the cyclical behaviour of household income risk in Great Britain and assesses … Panel Survey (1991-2008) by decomposing stochastic idiosyncratic income into its transitory, persistent and fixed components …. We then estimate how income risk, measured by the variance and the skewness of the probability distribution of shocks to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872060
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Migration and Cultural Change
Rapoport, Hillel - 2020
We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823554
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Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendanc
Cornelissen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Raute, Anna … - 2018
In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany by exploiting the exogenous variation in attendance caused by a reform that led to a large staggered expansion across municipalities. Drawing on novel administrative data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931912
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Women's education and family behavior: Trends in marriage, divorce and fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266066
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Gender and racial biases: Evidence from child adoption
Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Collard-Wexler, Allan; Felli, … - 2010
This paper uses a new data set on domestic child adoption to document the preferences of potential adoptive parents over born and unborn babies relinquished for adoption by their birth mothers. We show that adoptive parents exhibit significant biases in favor of girls and against...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266105
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Culture of Origin, Parenting, and Household Labor Supply
Brilli, Ylenia; Moriconi, Simone - 2024
This paper analyzes how culture affects the engagement of parents in child-rearing activities, and time allocations of parents inside the family. We use data from the World Value Survey to construct a country-specific measure of the value attached to obedience as a child quality, which we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014574310
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Is There Still Son Preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence; Brummund, Peter; … - 2019
In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe evidence on son preference in the United States. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for natives and immigrants. Dahl and Moretti (2008) found earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179747
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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.; Kahn, Lawrence; Comey, Matthew; Eng, … - 2020
There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In particular, we ask if US immigrants allocate tasks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207960