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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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Rethinking specialisation and the sexual division of labour in the 21st Century
Siminski, Peter; Yetsenga, Rhiannon - 2020
This paper aims to shed new light on explanations for the sexual division of labour, within a broader examination of within-household specialisation. We propose a set of indices which we believe are the first direct within-couple measures of specialisation. We use these to present a rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177760
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The returns to parental health : evidence from Indonesia
Luca, Dara Lee; Bloom, David E. - 2018
This paper investigates the economic returns to parental health. To account for potential endogeneity between parental … health and child outcomes, we leverage longitudinal microdata from Indonesia to estimate individual fixed effects models. Our … results show that the economic returns to parental health are high. We show that maternal health not only significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951058
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Spouses as home health workers and cooks : insights for applied research
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2023
This paper presents a model of consumption and household production that takes into account substitution between health … data for couples, when individuals differ by gender, age, weight and education. The model also identifies new variables … and divorce. A reexamination of the determinants of the price elasticity of demand includes an explanation for gender gaps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014285886
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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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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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Gender bias in tax systems based on household income
Andrienko, Jurij; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014
The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441692
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Robots, labor markets, and family behavior
Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2019
regions that were more exposed to robots, the gender-income and labor-force-participation gaps declined. We then show that US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140291
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The betrayed generation? : intra-household transfers and retirement behavior in South Korea
Kim, Kyeongkuk; Lee, Sang-hyop; Halliday, Timothy - 2018
We consider the nexus of intra-household transfers, the sex composition of the sibship, and parental retirement behavior in Korea. We provide evidence that the cost of raising sons is higher than it is for daughters in Korea. Thus, in the absence of sufficient transfers from adult sons to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011914921
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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