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To describe and understand the economic inequality in a given so- ciety, it is necessary to understand intra-household … paper gives an overview of within-household distributions in different settings, both between the adults and also between … often, but not always, disfavor women and children. The paper also discusses the importance of intra-household allocations …
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This paper analyzes how intrahousehold bargaining power impacts labor supply, for seventeen European countries. To that end, we estimate a collective model using the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions for the period 2004-2019, and we study the validity of several potential...
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, using equivalence scales constructed from subjective wealth and more than 20 waves of household panel survey data from the … Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. The analysis suggests that the equivalence scale elasticity is sensitive to household …
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This paper presents a new model of the household that is able to explain a variety of consumption patterns that … household. Empirically, the paper revisits the Deaton-Paxson paradox exploiting household splits in longitudinal data and …
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To determine how wives' and husbands' retirement options affect their spouses' (and their own) labour supply decisions, we exploit (early) retirement cutoffs by way of a regression discontinuity design. Several German pension reforms since the early 1990s have gradually raised women's retirement...
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women, and one explanation for this gender gap is based on household responsibilities falling on women. But most of the …
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We explore the link between child gender and household financial decisions within a cultural environment that strongly … favours having a son. Using data from the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we find that the presence of a daughter is …
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The availability of child-care services has often been advocated as one of the instruments to counter the fertility decline observed in many high-income countries. In the recent past large inflows of lowskilled migrants have substantially increased the supply of child-care services. In this...
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The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of economic development experienced in the previous decade. We investigate the extent to which the low workforce participation of women can be explained by growing instances of...
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classrooms, increasing the demand for household-provided childcare. Using time diaries from American Time Use Survey (ATUS) and … childcare, especially mothers, compared to those on-site; fathers spent more time on household chores. However, only mothers … and spent even more time on household production. When both parents worked from home compared to both worked on …
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