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Birth order and child outcomes: does maternal quality time matter?

Monfardini, C.; See, S. G. - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2012

the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are …

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Does it Pay for Women to Volunteer?

Sauer, Robert M. - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2015

This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. Estimates of a DCDP model indicate that an extra year of volunteer experience increases wage offers by 8.5% in future part-time work and by 2.6% in future full-time work. On average, working for free...

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Is it money or brains? The determinants of intra-family decision power

Bertocchi, G.; Brunetti, M.; Torricelli, C. - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2012

variables. We find that the probability that the wife is in charge is affected by household characteristics such as family size …'s characteristics in terms of age, education, and income. The main conclusion is that decision-making power over family economics is not …

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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women: Experimental Evidence from Childcare

Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara; … - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2013

Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other … women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation … exposed to two informational treatments on the positive consequences of formal childcare on children future educational …

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The Riskiest of Them All: Parental Supervision and Adolescent Behaviors

See, Sarah Grace - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2013

Adolescents with higher parental supervision are associated with lower participation in health risk behaviors. Using weekly hour measurements of supervision derived from time diaries, I confirm this general negative relationship with a sample of 10 to 25 years old from the PSID-CDS and PSID-TA....

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Does it Pay to Work for Free? Negative Selection and the Wage Returns to Volunteer Experience

Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2015

are substantial and differ considerably by gender. The results imply that the unequal valuation of volunteer experience by … gender is more important in explaining the gender earnings gap than is the unequal valuation of part-time paid work …

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Social inclusion and altruism: empirical evidence from juvenile rehabilitation in Italy

Menon, Martina; Perali, Federico; Veronesi, Marcella - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2015

Social inclusion is a multidimensional phenomenon that involves social, political, and economic aspects of individuals' life. While social inclusion is a priority of the European Agenda 2020, little is known about individuals' preferences for social inclusion and its relationship with altruism....

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Transfers to Households with Children and Child Development

Boca, Daniela Del; Flinn, Christopher; Wiswall, Matthew - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2014

In this paper we utilize a model of household investments in the development of children to explore the impact of …

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Does breastfeeding support at work help mothers and employers at the same time?

Bono, E. Del; Pronzato, C. - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2012

This paper asks whether the availability of breastfeeding facilities at the workplace helps to reconcile breastfeeding and work commitments. Using data from the 2005 UK Infant Feeding Survey, we model the joint probability to return to work and breastfeeding and analyse its association with the...

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Public and parental investments in children. Evidence from the literature on non-parental child care

Brilli, Ylenia - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2012

This paper summarizes the most recent empirical research on parental and social investments in children, with a focus … eects on children's cognitive outcomes, both in the short and in the medium run. Early childhood policies can have long …

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