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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
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What If She Earns More? Gender Norms, Income Inequality, and the Division of Housework
Magda, Iga; Cukrowska‐Torzewska, Ewa; Palczyńska, Marta - 2023
Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income within the household, as measured by the female share of total household income, and women's involvement in housework. We find that households in which the woman contributes more...
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COVID-19 and the Employment Gender Gap
Fukai, Taiyo; Ikeda, Masato; Kawaguchi, Daiji; … - 2021
This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected female employment in Japan. Our estimates indicate that the employment rate of married women with children decreased by 4 percentage points, while that of those without children decreased by only 1 percentage point, implying that increased...
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Mommies' Girls Get Dresses, Daddies' Boys Get Toys : Gender Preferences in Poland and Their Implications
Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2012
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 and mothers' labor market outcomes, we take advantage...
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Gender Bias in Tax Systems Based on Household Income
Andrienko, Yuri - 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...
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School Schedule and the Gender Pay Gap
Duchini, Emma; Van Effenterre, Clémentine - 2021
We provide causal evidence that children's school schedules contribute to the persistence of the gender pay gap between parents. Historically, French children have had no school on Wednesdays. In 2013, a reform reallocated some classes to Wednesday mornings. Exploiting variations in the...
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Work and Family : Marriage, Children, Child Gender and the Work Hours and Earnings of West German Men
Choi, Hyung-Jai; Lundberg, Shelly J.; Joesch, Jutta M. - 2021
earnings and work hours. These effects persist in fixed effects models that control for correlation in time …
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Job Location Decisions and the Effect of Children on the Employment Gender Gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2022
, women give up non-local jobs regardless of their earnings level, their partner's labour market status and local economic …
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The Lasting Effect of Sex Ratio Imbalance on Marriage and Family : Evidence from World War II in Russia
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2016
How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by World War II to identify the effects of unbalanced sex ratios on Russian women. Using unique data from the Soviet archives, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower...
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Long-Term Effects of Recession on Parenthood Gender Inequality
Kim, Jinyoung; Kwak, Eunhye - 2023
This study identifies a new mechanism to account for the persistent gender differences in earnings after childbirth … against a large cross-sectional dataset from the US, we find that giving birth during a recession reduces mothers' earnings … time and accounts for 30 40 percent of the after-childbirth gender gap in earnings. Unintended impacts of recession on …
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