Similar Search Results

Labor supply heterogeneity and demand for child care of mothers with young children

Apps, Patricia; Kabatek, Jan; Rees, Ray; van Soest, Arthur - 2012

This paper introduces a static structural model of hours of market labor supply, time spent on child care and other domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with pre-school age children. The father's behavior is taken as given. The main goal is to analyze the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289925

Retirement, Intergenerational Time Transfers, and Fertility

Eibich, Peter; Siedler, Thomas - 2020

children's fertility. We use representative panel data from Germany to link observations on parents and adult children. We … retirement affects only the timing of adult children's fertility, without having an effect on total fertility. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180186

Mommies' girls get dresses, daddies' boys get toys: Gender preferences in Poland and their implications

Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - 2011

Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282479

Family and labor market choices: Requirements to guide effective evidence-based policy

Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michal; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2012

assessment of consequences of family related policies in the area of labor market and fertility. We set these models in the … policy making with the aim to reconcile the objectives of increasing female participation and fertility and reducing poverty …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289900

Raising juveniles

Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik T. - 2010

This paper investigates how families make decisions about the education of juveniles. The decision problem is analyzed in three variations: a 'decentralized' scheme, in which the parents control the purse-strings, but the children dispose of their time as they see fit; a 'hierarchical' scheme,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269937

Fertility, Female Labor Supply and Public Policy

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2001

female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last decade or so, the relationship across countries has been … positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy and Spain with the lowest fertility rates also have the lowest female … female labor supply and higher fertility. These results are strengthened when we take account of the heterogeneity among …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262610

Secondary Childcare in the ATUS: What Does It Measure?

Stewart, Jay; Allard, Mary Dorinda - 2015

Unlike most of the earlier U.S. time-use surveys, the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) does not collect information on secondary activities. It does, however, include a set of questions asking respondents to identify times when a child under 13 was "in your care." The goal of these questions is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401643

The timing of maternal work and time with children

Stewart, Jay - 2009

I use data from the American Time Use Survey to examine how maternal employment affects when during the day that mothers of pre-school-age children spend doing enriching childcare and whether they adjust their schedules to spend time with their children at more-desirable times of day. I find...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268986

How do adolescents spell time use?

Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie; Ribar, David C.; Stratton, … - 2009

We investigate how household disadvantage affects the time use of 15-18 year-olds using 2003-2006 data from the American Time Use Survey. Applying competing-risk hazard models, we distinguish between the incidence and duration of activities and incorporate the daily time constraint. We find that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276861

Use of time and value of unpaid family care work: A comparison between Italy and Poland

Francavilla, Francesca; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; … - 2011

This study provides a comparison of the size and value of unpaid family care work in two European member States, Italy and Poland. Using the Italian and Polish time use surveys, both the opportunity cost and the market replacement approaches are employed to separately estimate the value of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278486

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last