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Our model studies couples. time allocation and career choices, which are a¤ected by a social norm on gender roles in the family. Parents can provide two types of informal child care: basic care (feeding, changing children, baby-sitting) and quality care (activities that stimulate children.s...
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We study the design of child-care policies when redistribution matters. Traditional mothers provide some informal child …
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Our model explains the observed gender-specific patterns of career and child care choices through endogenous social norms. We study how these norms interact with the gender wage gap. We show that via the social norm a couple's child care and career choices impose an externality on other couples,...
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This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature … is significantly negative for housework of women. Childcare time of fathers increases with own wage and with the presence …
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