This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …

labour supply decision of both female and male in a household. This paper analyses how an exogenous increase in fertility …While a large body of literature focuses on how fertility affects female labour market participation, there are … relatively few studies that examine the effect of fertility on male labour market participation. Even if the burden of child care …

after China's 1980 one-child law. The results indicate that fertility in China declined by about 1.2-1.4 births per woman as … important in explaining the division of labor in the home, often given as a cause for the gender wage gap. Indeed, as fertility …

This paper analyses the impact of current and past lottery wins on household labor supply in the United Kingdom using … data from the British Household Panel Survey 1997-2008. Estimating individual fixed-effects models, we show that male … (lottery wins worth more than £500), we find a compensation effect within the household, as the recipient's spouse increases …

Employment helps reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a … conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply …

(2002) to an intertemporal setting. We first develop a theoretical model to analyze the intra-household distribution of … setting. We show that wages are positively related to household labor supply, although cross and lagged effects show negative … correlates. Furthermore, the ability of wives to negotiate the intra-household allocation of non-labor income is mainly driven by …

This paper analyzes the intra-household distribution of wealth and welfare in the United States, within a theoretical … framework based on a collective model of labor supply, where household decisions are Pareto efficient, and spouses negotiate a … wives tend to be more altruistic in comparison to their husbands regarding the intra-household allocation of income, which …

the household is an important factor that should be considered when analyzing household decisions …

population in the household then examine the determinants of the decision to supply labour. The fraction of home …-produced childcare to household childcare needs is considered to be a public good within the household, for which preferences are … of the choice of home childcare vs. labour supply. We are able to quantify each household's sensitivity to potential …