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Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households
Bertrand, Marianne - 2013
We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We establish that gender identity - in … their marriage and are more likely to divorce. Finally, based on time use surveys, the gender gap in non-market work is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082168
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The Time and Timing Costs of Market Work
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2010
With the American Time Use Survey of 2003 and 2004 we first examine whether additional market work has neutral impacts on the mix of non-market activities. The estimates indicate that fixed time costs of market work alter patterns of non-market activities, reducing leisure time and mostly...
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Household Time Use Among Older Couples : Evidence and Implications for Labor Supply Parameters
Rogerson, Richard - 2018
Using the Consumption Activities Mail Survey (CAMS) module in the HRS we document how time allocations change for individuals within a household when one or more members transitions from full time work to not working. Our basic finding is that the ratio of home production to leisure time is...
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Children, Time Allocation and Consumption Insurance
Blundell, Richard W. - 2017
We consider the life cycle choices of a household that in each period decides how much to consume and how to allocate spouses' time to work, leisure, and childcare. In an environment with uncertainty, the allocation of goods and time over the life cycle also serves the purpose of smoothing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943615
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Behavioral Responses to Taxes : Lessons from the EITC and Labor Supply
Eissa, Nada - 2012
Twenty-two million families currently receive a total of $34 billion dollars in benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). In fact, the EITC is the largest cash transfer program for lower-income families at the federal level. An unusual feature of the credit is its explicit goal to use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103573
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Temperature and the Allocation of Time : Implications for Climate Change
Graff Zivin, Joshua - 2010
In this paper we estimate the impacts of climate change on the allocation of time using econometric models that exploit plausibly exogenous variation in daily temperature over time within counties. We find large reductions in U.S. labor supply in industries with high exposure to climate and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148102
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Leisure, Home Production and Work--The Theory of the Allocation of Time Revisited
Gronau, Reuben - 2021
From the theoretical point of view, the justification for aggregating leisure and work at home into one entity, "non-market time" (or "home time") can rest on two assumptions: (a.) the two elements react similarly to changes in the socio-economic environment and, hence, nothing is gained by...
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The Role of Paid Family Leave in Labor Supply Responses to a Spouse's Disability or Health Shock
Anand, Priyanka; Dague, Laura; Wagner, Kathryn - 2023
The onset of a disability or major health shock can affect the labor supply of not only those experiencing the event but also their family members. Potential caregivers face a tradeoff between time spent earning income for the family and providing care for their spouse, which could be affected...
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Divorce Law and Women's Labor Supply
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
Divorce law changes made in the 1970s affected marital formation, dissolution, and bargaining within marriage. By altering the terms of the marital contract these legal changes impacted the incentives for women to enter and remain in the labor force. Whereas earlier work had suggested that the...
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Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010
Gender-Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey's rule of optimality because it taxes at a lower rate the more elastic … society can resolve its distributional concerns efficiently with gender-specific lump sum transfers, GBT with higher marginal … balanced allocation of labor market outcomes across spouses and a smaller gender gap in labor supply elasticities …
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