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Hamermesh, Daniel; Weil, Philippe; Burda, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Using time-diary data from 25 countries, we demonstrate that there is a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and the female-male difference in total work time per day -- the sum of work for pay and work at home. In rich northern countries on four continents, including the United...

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Boy-Girl Differences in Parental Time Investments: Evidence from Three Countries

Baker, Michael; Milligan, Kevin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We study differences in the time parents spend with girls and boys at preschool ages in Canada, the U.K. and the U ….S. We refine previous evidence that fathers commit more time to boys, showing this greater commitment emerges with age and … reading and the use of number and letters. We find the parents commit more of this time to girls, starting at ages as young as …

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Opting For Families: Recent Trends in the Fertility of Highly Educated Women

Weinberg, Bruce A.; Shang, Qingyan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Observers have argued about whether highly-educated women are opting out of their careers and for families. If so, it is natural to expect fertility to increase and, insofar as children are associated with lower employment, further declines in employment. This paper provides a comprehensive...

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Gender Roles and Technological Progress

Albanesi, Stefania; Olivetti, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Until the early decades of the 20th century, women spent more than 60% of their prime- age years either pregnant or nursing. Since then, improved medical knowledge and obstetric practices reduced the time cost associated with women's reproductive role. The introduction of infant formula also...

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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes

Zhang, Junsen; Conti, Gabriella; Yi, Junjian; Heckman, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...

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Fertility Theories: Can They Explain the Negative Fertility-Income Relationship?

Jones, Larry E.; Tertilt, Michele; Schoonbroodt, Alice - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

In this chapter we revisit the relationship between income and fertility. There is overwhelming empirical evidence that fertility is negatively related to income in most countries at most times. Several theories have been proposed in the literature to explain this somewhat puzzling fact. The...

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Time is Money: Life Cycle Rational Inertia and Delegation of Investment Management

Mitchell, Olivia; Kim, Hugh Hoikwang; Maurer, Raimond - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper incorporates two empirically-grounded insights into a dynamic life cycle portfolio choice model: the fact that investors forego the opportunity to accumulate job-specific skills when they spend time managing their own money, and the observation that efficiency in financial decision...

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Allocating Household Time: When Does Efficiency Imply Specialization?

Pollak, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

When does efficiency in the household imply specialization? For example, if we recognize two sectors, "market" and "household," when does efficiency imply that one spouse specializes in the market and the other in the household? If efficiency did imply specialization, then egalitarian marriages...

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A Gift of Time

Kawaguchi, Daiji; Lee, Jungmin; Hamermesh, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

How would people spend time if confronted by permanent declines in market work? We identify preferences off exogenous cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s. We estimate the probability that an individual was...

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How Family Status and Social Security Claiming Options Shape Optimal Life Cycle Portfolios

Mitchell, Olivia; Hubener, Andreas; Maurer, Raimond - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Household decisions are profoundly shaped by a complex set of financial options due to Social Security rules determining retirement, spousal, and survivor benefits, along with benefit adjustments that vary with the age at which these are claimed. These rules influence optimal household asset...

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