Showing 1 - 10 of 27
Australia, UK and US, we find that selection into marriage by individuals with a higher taste for home-produced goods can … two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653468
This paper exploits the complex sequential structure of the diary data in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ('pure leisure', 'co-present leisure' and 'leisure fragmentation') to show that the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287648
This paper exploits the complex sequential structure of the diary data in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ('pure leisure', 'co-present leisure' and 'leisure fragmentation') to show that the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128024
We study whether and why parents have gender-stereotyped beliefs when they assess their child's skills. Exploiting … parents overestimate boys' skills more so than girls' in mathematics (a male-stereotyped subject), whereas there are no gender … differences for reading. Consistent with an information friction hypothesis, we find that the parental gender bias disappears for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296517
children. They were more likely to remain in the labour force and had higher rates at which they entered it. While more likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703435
This paper contributes to the literature of gender differences in academic attainment by putting together several … sources of data going back several decades to investigate how gender stereotypes and parental time investments shape sport … Association, which provides information for every state on the total number of high school participants by gender in each sport …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270148
investments by college and non-college educated parents and their children widened up precisely during this first period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307379
, leading to a 4-10 percent gender earnings gap 5-10 years later. The child penalty is shifted across generations to … grandmothers with low education, but daycare availability only affects child penalties. Gender biases towards older women's work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469363
This paper undertakes a comparison exercise to disentangle what drives the opposite findings regarding the effect of house prices on consumption documented in two papers using the same data set for the UK. On the one hand, Campbell and Cocco (2007) find that old owners are the most benefited by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329107
parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support … welfare reforms might have on divorced parents and their children. Such adverse effects may arise because an increase in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274406