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differences in age, race/ethnicity, ages and numbers of children, and household incomes. Non-partnered mothers feel slightly more …-partnered mothers receive much less parental care--perhaps 40 percent less--than other children; and most of what they receive is from …Using time-diary data from the U.S. and six wealthy European countries, I demonstrate that non-partnered mothers spend …
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. Analyses of a large-scale longitudinal dataset in the U.S., and a much smaller dataset of Chinese parents and children, show …
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Economic policy uncertainty affects decisions of households, businesses, policy makers and Financial intermediaries. We first examine the impact of economic policy uncertainty on aggregate bank credit growth. Then we analyze commercial bank entity level data to gauge the effects of policy...
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We examine monthly variation in weekly work hours using data for 2003-10 from the Current Population Survey (CPS) on hours/worker, from the Current Employment Survey (CES) on hours/job, and from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) on both. The ATUS data minimize recall difficulties and constrain...
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Routine - maintaining the same schedule from day to day - saves time. It is also boring and inherently undesirable. As such, the amount of routine a person engages in is partly an economic outcome, with variations in routine generated by variations in the price of time, household income and the...
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to preserve joint leisure, and those with higher full incomes consume more of their leisure jointly. Children reduce the … jointness of spouses' leisure, with the greatest change in schedules occurring among new mothers …
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We use data from the 11 waves of the U.S. Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development 1991-2005, following children … instrumenting children's looks by their mother's, and do not work through teachers' differential treatment of better …-looking children, any relation between looks and a child's behavior, his/her victimization by bullies or self-confidence. Results from …
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Lagrangean multipliers in models of household production, we show that births increase time stress, especially among mothers, and …
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The distribution of job satisfaction widened across cohorts of young men in the United States between 1978 and 1988, and between 1978 and 1996, in ways correlated with changing wage inequality. Satisfaction among workers in upper earnings quantiles rose relative to that of workers in lower...
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Using 2004-2008 data from the American Time Use Survey, we show that sharp differences between the time use of immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the process of assimilation--what immigrants do with their...
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