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Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: A European Perspective
Gwozdz, Wencke; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Reisch, Lucia A.; … - 2013
The substantial increase in female employment rates in Europe over the past two decades has often been linked in … from the IDEFICS study of children aged 2-9 in 16 regions of eight European countries. Based on such data as accelerometer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319507
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The impact of teenage motherhood on the education and fertility of their children: Evidence for Europe
Navarro, María; Walker, Ian - 2012
This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289950
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GDP and the value of family caretaking: How much does Europe care?
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; … - 2010
level several studies are available, a comprehensive evaluation for Europe as a whole was missing so far, mainly due to data … both the opportunity cost and the market replacement approaches. For Europe as a whole, the total value of these activities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274019
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Time-bound opportunity costs of informal care: Consequences for access to professional care, caregiver support, and labour supply estimates
Hassink, Wolter; van den Berg, Bernard - 2011
Patterns of informal care are documented throughout the day with Dutch time use diary data. The diary data enable us to identify a, so far overlooked, source of opportunity costs of informal care, i.e. the necessity to perform particular tasks of informal care at specific moments of the day....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274611
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It's the opportunity cost, stupid!: How self-employment responds to financial incentives of return, risk and skew
Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011
There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on the opportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282326
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The role of preferences and opportunity costs in determining the time allocated to housework
Stratton, Leslie S. - 2012
The time devoted to housework in couple households is substantial. Research on intrahousehold time allocations has generally assumed that housework is a necessary evil and that the partner with the lower opportunity cost of time in the market will devote more time to home production. In reality,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282237
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Fertility and female employment dynamics in Europe: the effect of using alternative econometric modeling assumptions
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2008
We investigate the direct and long-run effects of fertility on employment in Europe estimating dynamic models of labor … supply under different assumptions regarding the exogeneity of fertility and modeling assumptions related to initial … correlation and the assumption of strict exogeneity of children. However, the pattern across countries is robust to these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269054
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The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence
Fehr, Ernst; Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2011
We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an in-group or an out-group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278567
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Effects of parental background on other-regarding preferences in children
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara - 2011
binary-choice dictator games to classify subjects into other-regarding types, we find that children of less educated parents … characteristics, and is attenuated for smarter children. The results suggest that less educated parents are either less efficient to … instill social norms or their children less able to acquire them. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282557
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Sibling Size and Investment in Children's Education : An Asian Instrument
Lee, Jungmin - 2004
fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and fertility timing are determined conditional on the … households. However, sibling size has adverse effects on per-child investment in education, in particular when fertility is high. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262065