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Mommies' girls get dresses, daddies' boys get toys : gender preferences in Poland and their implications
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michał - 2011
We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish … Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility … gender on consumption patterns. We find that a first born daughter is significantly less likely to be living with her father …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523454
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Spousal employment and intra-household bargaining power
Antman, Francisca M. - 2014
This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that spousal work status may be correlated with unobserved factors that also affect bargaining power within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364497
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Culture, religiosity and female labor supply
Guner, Duygu; Uysal, Gokce - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348904
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On the quantity and quality of girls : new evidence on abortion, fertility, and parental investments
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2016
, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543967
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The effect of gender-targeted conditional cash transfers on household expenditures : evidence from a randomized experiment
Armand, Alex; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Carneiro, Pedro; … - 2016
, we show that the gender of the recipient has an effect on the structure of expenditure shares. Targeting transfers to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521158
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The theory of differential overqualifications : does it work?
Büchel, Felix; Battu, Harminder - 2002
The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller labor markets have a higher risk of working in jobs for which they are overqualified. This stems from the problem of dual job search for couples which is much more difficult to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411661
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Parental disability and teenagers' time allocation
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519362
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Stable income, stable family
Lindo, Jason M.; Regmi, Krishna; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2022
We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy that leverages state-level changes in maximum benefits over time and comparisons across workers who have been laid off and those that have not been laid off. The results indicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187890
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The impact of gender role norms on mothers' labor supply
Cavapozzi, Danilo; Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493318
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Initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment and hours of self- employed coupled and single workers by gender and parental status
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2020
, differential effects by gender, couple status, and parental status exist. Coupled women were less likely to be working than coupled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244813