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Heat and Team Production: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
Garg, Teevrat; Jagnani, Maulik; Lyons, Elizabeth - 2024
Despite the increasing importance of occupations that rely heavily on interpersonal interaction, the impact of heat on team production relative to individual production remains largely unexplored. Heat can affect team and individual production in distinct ways, potentially increasing aggression,...
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Temperature and Joint Time Use
Cosaert, Sam; Nieto, Adrián; 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 … evidence of the effect of temperature on joint time use being location-dependent. We rationalize this finding using a model in …
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Temperature and the Timing of Work
Cosaert, Sam; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2023
We leverage U.S. county-day temperature variation combined with daily time use data to examine the effect of … temperature on the timing of work. We find that warmer (colder) temperatures increase (decrease) working time during the night and …, flexible work schedules, greater exposure to ambient temperature while at work, and fewer family-related constraints. Workers …
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Taxation and Parental Time Allocation under Different Assumptions on Altruism
Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2014
In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation. We investigate whether an increase in labor supply brought about by a reduction in taxes is always associated with a reduction in parental time devoted to children, which...
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Causal effects of paternity leave on children and parents
Cools, Sara; Fiva, Jon. H.; Kirkebøen, Lars J. - 2011
In this paper we use a parental leave reform directed towards fathers to identify the causal effects of paternity leave on children's and parents' outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for children's cognitive skills. School performance at age 16...
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Immigrants and Gender Roles: Assimilation vs. Culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States—looking both over time with immigrants’ residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
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Refugee Migration and the Labor Market: Lessons from 40 Years of Post-Arrival Policies in Denmark
Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2022
Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also frequently changed policies and regulations concerning integration programs, transfer payments, and conditions for permanent residency. Such policy variation in conjunction with...
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Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants' Skill Investment
Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2023
We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants' eligibility criteria for permanent residency to incentivize their labor market attachment and acquisition of local language skills. Contrary to what the reform intended, the overall employment of those affected...
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Reaching for Gold! The Impact of a Positive Reputation Shock on Career Choice
Goller, Daniel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2023
We analyze the causal influence a positive reputation shock for a particular occupation may have on career choice. The measure of the positive reputation shock is the unpredictable event that a young adult from one's own country wins a (gold) medal in a particular occupation at the World...
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Substitution Between Individual and Source Country Characteristics: Social Capital, Culture, and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - 2015
Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...
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