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Does culture affect female labor supply? In this paper, we address this question using a recent approach to measuring the effects of culture on economic outcomes, i.e. the epidemiological approach. We focus on migrants, who come from different cultures, but who share a common economic and...
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addition, when examining the time spent by girls and boys in two-parent households, we find that the gender of the disabled … both the gender of the teen and of the disabled parent, with teen girls likely being worse off than teen boys. Our results … suggest that differences in teenagers' time investments are a plausible mechanism for gender differences in intergenerational …
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We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … conforming gender role attitudes to their peers', with the remaining half being explained by the spillover effect of peers' labor …
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, differential effects by gender, couple status, and parental status exist. Coupled women were less likely to be working than coupled …
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the gender gaps in paid and unpaid work through the lockdown and recovery phases. The first month of the national lockdown …
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as others, irrespective of gender and spousal employment. Third, single-parent essential workers experience relatively …
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Uganda National Household Survey by adopting a Tobit-hybrid model. Our results show that gender differentials in the intra …
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The paper extends a static discrete-choice labor supply model by adding participation and hours constraints. We identify restrictions by survey information on the eligibility and search activities of individuals as well as actual and desired hours. This provides for a more robust identification...
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hours and earnings is despite family responsibilities and home-schooling, industrial gender segregation and women's greater …
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We find that the introduction of two weeks of paid paternity leave in Spain in 2007 led to delays in subsequent fertility. Following a regression discontinuity design and using rich administrative data, we show that parents who were (just) entitled to the new paternity leave took longer to have...
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