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Hamermesh, Daniel S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Using time-diary data from the U.S. and six wealthy European countries, I demonstrate that non-partnered mothers spend slightly less time performing childcare, but much less time in other household activities than partnered mothers. Unpartnered mothers' total work time--paid work and household...

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Widows' Time, Time Stress and Happiness : Adjusting to Loss

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current Population Survey allow inferring the short- and longer-term effects of an arguably exogenous...

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Lock-downs, Loneliness and Life Satisfaction

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2020

their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases … happiness may have been increased compared to before the lock-downs; but sufficiently large losses of work time and income … reverse this inference. Simulations demonstrate clearly that, assuming lock-downs impose solitude on singles, their happiness …

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"Beauty Is the Promise of Happiness"?

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011

We measure the impact of individuals' looks on life satisfaction/happiness. Using five data sets, from the U.S., Canada … beauty. Beauty raises happiness: A one standard-deviation change in beauty generates about 0.10 standard deviations of … additional satisfaction/happiness among men, 0.12 among women. Accounting for a wide variety of covariates, particularly effects …

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Stressed Out on Four Continents : Time Crunch or Yuppie Kvetch?

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2003

Social commentators have pointed to problems of women workers who face time stress' an absence of sufficient time to accomplish all their tasks. An economic theory views time stress as reflecting how tightly the time constraint binds households. Time stress will be more prevalent in households...

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Sex Discrimination by Sex : Voting in a Professional Society

Dillingham, Alan E. - 1991

Economic theories of discrimination are usually based on tastes. The huge body of empirical studies, however, considers the discriminatory outcomes that are the reduced-form results of interactions between tastes and opportunity sets. None examines tastes for discrimination directly, or...

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Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015

The previously documented trend toward more co- and multi-authored research in economics is partly (perhaps 20 percent) due to different research styles of scholars in different birth cohorts (of different ages). Most of the trend reflects profession-wide changes in research style. Older...

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Endophilia or Exophobia : Beyond Discrimination

Feld, Jan - 2013

The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others--are exophobic--or because they favor their own kind--are endophilic? This difference matters, as the relative...

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Cues for timing and coordination : latitude, letterman, and longitude

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Myers, Caitlin K.; Pocock, Mark L. - In: Journal of labor economics 26 (2008) 2, pp. 223-246

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International labor economics : presidential address to the Society of Labor Economists, Austin, Texas, April 20, 2001

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - In: Journal of labor economics 20 (2002) 4, pp. 709-732

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