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the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and sons, and consequently their children …'s later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 … their mothers held non-traditional (pro-gender-equality) beliefs, even if they were not working themselves. Consistent with …
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effects: high educated non-mothers are persuaded by the informational treatments to increase their intended use of formal … child care (and to pay more); whereas low educated non-mothers to reduce their intended labor supply. These findings are …
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domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with pre-school age children. The father's behavior …
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We investigate the impact of delaying the first birth on Italian mothers' labor market outcomes around childbirth. The … stillbirths. Focusing on mothers' behavior around first birth our study is able to isolate the effect of motherhood postponement … evidence that late motherhood prevents a worsening of new mothers' job conditions (the so-called mommy track). Our findings are …
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We investigate spillovers in spousal labour supply exploiting independent variation in hours worked generated by the introduction of the shorter workweek in France in the late 1990s. We find that female and male employees treated by the shorter legal workweek reduce their weekly labour supply by...
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In this paper, we estimate income- and substitution- labour supply and participation elasticities for Canadian married women using data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics 1996-2005. We use the Canadian Tax and Credit Simulator (CTaCS) and detailed information on the structure of...
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The employment behavior of mothers is strongly influenced by labor market regulations and certain institutional …
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We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical week and work fewer hours than women with first-born girls. The puzzle is why women in these countries react in this way to the sex of their first child, which is chosen...
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In this paper we compare gender differences in the allocation of time to market work, domestic work, child care, and leisure over the life cycle. Time use profiles for these activity categories are constructed on survey data for three countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the...
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hours of work are relatively inelastic for men, but are a little more responsive for married women and lone mothers. On the …
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