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Mother or Child? Intra-Household Redistribution Under Gender-Asymmetric Altruism
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009
In developing societies, social norms typically ascribe differential weights to paternal, maternal and communal (or state) contributions to children's expenses. Individuals internalize these valuations. I examine a Cournot model of voluntary contribution to children's goods in a two-adult...
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Gender, Information and the Efficiency of Household Production Decisions : An Experiment in Rural Togo
Apedo-Amah, Marie - 2020
Why do farm households inefficiently allocate resources across the plots they cultivate? We explore how these production inefficiencies relate to consumption decisions and information sharing within the household. In a lab-in-the-field experiment, male producers allocate too few inputs to their...
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How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country
Cigno, Alessandro - 2011
As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labour below its efficient level (if positive), and...
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Income Pooling and Household Division of Labor : Evidence from Danish Couples
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2011
If income pooling indicates primary earners' willingness to trade part of their income with spouses who earn less and work more in household production, then among specialized couples income pooling will be positively associated with the price of commercial domestic services, substitutes for...
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Reconsidering Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation in India
Zimmermann, Laura - 2011
Detecting gender discrimination among children in the intra-household allocation of goods from household surveys has … in the analysis at the state level. In general, girls experience gender discrimination especially from age 10 onwards …
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Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US : New Results
Bargain, Olivier - 2012
the US, separately by gender and marital status. Measurement differences are netted out by using a harmonized empirical …
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What Women Want (Their Men to Do) : Housework and Satisfaction in Australian Households
Foster, Gigi - 2017
The time allocated to household chores is substantial, with the burden falling disproportionately upon women. Further, social norms about how much work men and women should contribute in the home are likely to influence couples' housework allocation decisions and evaluations of their lot. Using...
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Gender Identity, Co-Working Spouses and Relative Income within Households
Zinovyeva, Natalia - 2018
distribution of households according to the share of income earned by the wife, which they attribute to the existence of a gender …
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My Baby Takes the Morning Train : Gender Identity, Fairness, and Relative Labor Supply within Households
Lepinteur, Anthony - 2016
husbands' income may have less to do with gender identity norm (Bertrand et al., 2015) and more to do with what women think is …
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Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation of Education in India : Has it Fallen Over Time?
Datta, Sandip - 2019
This paper asks whether gender bias in education expenditure in rural India fell over the two-decade period from 1995 … to 2014. We find that instead of falling over time, the channel through which gender bias is practiced changed … channels of gender bias, namely bias in the school enrolment decision, and bias in the conditional educational expenditure …
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