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by bargaining families with mixed- or same-gender siblings. LTC care can be provided either informally by children, or … formal home and institutional care. Except when children and parents have equal bargaining weights these subsidies are gender … is provided in LF. Second, the weights children and parents have in the family bargaining problem might differ in general …
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Illegal trafficking of women is a result of their disadvantageous position in the society that is often reflected in increasing preference for son and neglect for daughters. Multiple reports point to India as country confronted with both higher levels of illegal trafficking of girls and abnormal...
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This paper explores how the relative circumstances of men and women following marital dissolution affect sex-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property rights after separation. We use this improvement in...
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This paper analyses the intra-household allocation of time to show gender differences in childcare. In the framework of … influenced by the presence of young children in the household, by the total non-labor income, and by the ratio of mothers' non …
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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 … gender on consumption patterns. We find that a first born daughter is significantly less likely to be living with her father …
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children increases. In these advanced economies the negative impact on fertility deriving from the fact that fewer pregnancies …
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This paper explores the relationship between self-employment, partner's employment, the household and children on a … countries. Other effects such as human capital, household income, presence of grandmothers and number of young children indicate …
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-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters - a first son increases fathers' work hours by … supply model reveals that men who remain with female children are strongly positively selected (in terms of their work hours …) relative to men who remain with male children …
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The growth in labor market participation among women with young children has raised concerns about the potential … negative impact of the mother's absence from home on child outcomes. Recent data show that mother's time spent with children … has declined in the last decade, while the indicators of children's cognitive and noncognitive outcomes have worsened. The …
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welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases time spent by parents looking after their children and … working. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, the study focuses on mono-nuclear families with children under …
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