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Her Time, His Time, or the Maid's Time : An Analysis of the Demand for Domestic Work
Stancanelli, Elena - 2010
This paper analyzes households' demand for time inputs to domestic services, modeling simultaneously the decision to purchase services in the market and the time spent on weekend and weekday days by each partner on routine household chores. By focusing on cleaning, laundry, and ironing, we...
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Time Costs of Children as Parents' Foregone Leisure
Ekert Jaffé, Olivia - 2011
This article uses data from the 1998-1999 French INSEE time use survey to estimate the time costs of children. The focus is on couples with two spouses working Full-Time in the labor force in order to avoid issues of substitution between home production and labor supply. Time costs are computed...
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Intra-Household Time Allocation : Gender Differences in Caring for Children
Garcia-Mainar, Inmaculada - 2009
This paper analyses the intra-household allocation of time to show gender differences in childcare. In the framework of a general efficiency approach, hours spent on childcare by each parent are regressed against individual and household characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France,...
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The Effects of Marriage on Couples' Allocation of Time Between Market and Non-Market Hours
El Lahga, AbdelRahmen - 2007
We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours using a sample of working couples. For this purpose we use the 21 first waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSEOP). We adapt to system GMM estimation the estimator presented...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777458
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What Will You Do If I Say 'I Do'? : The Effect of the Sex Ratio on Time Use within Taiwanese Married Couples
Chang, Simon - 2015
This paper uses the natural experiment of a large imbalance between men and women of marriageable age in Taiwan in the 1960s to test the hypothesis that higher sex ratios lead to husbands (wives) having a lower (higher) share of couple's time in leisure and higher (lower) share of the couple's...
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Spousal Influences on Parents' Non-Market Time Choices
Connelly, Rachel; Kimmel, Jean - 2007
This paper considers the effect of spouse's characteristics on three aggregated non-paid time uses, active leisure time; child caregiving time; and home production time, using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). The time diary of each married individual with children under the age of 13 (mothers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014225561
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Marriage Versus Cohabitation : How Specialization and Time Use Differ by Relationship Type
Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023
Relationships have changed dramatically in the last fifty years. Fewer couples are marrying, more are cohabiting. Reasons for this shift abound, but the shift may have consequences of its own. A number of models predict that those cohabiting will specialize less than those marrying. Panel data...
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Institutions, Social Norms, and Bargaining Power : An Analysis of Individual Leisure Time in Couple Households
Stratton, Leslie S.; Datta Gupta, Nabanita - 2021
We exploit time use data from Denmark and the United States to examine the impact institutions and social norms have on individuals' bargaining power within a household, hypothesizing that the more generous social welfare system and more egalitarian social norms in Denmark will mitigate the...
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Gender, Time-Use, and Fertility Recovery in Industrialized Countries
García-Manglano, Javier - 2014
This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit … replacement fertility rates – around two children per woman. Paradoxically, birth rates are substantially lower in countries in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043697
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On Population Structure and Marriage Dynamics
Giolito, Eugenio P. - 2010
between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two … single women in equilibrium. Using an extended version of the model to a finite number of periods and fertility data, I show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137248