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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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Using cross-sectional data files for the United States we show that difficulties experienced in childhood - so-called Adverse Child Experiences (ACE)s - are strongly and significantly associated with mental health in adulthood. Our evidence is taken from eight Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance...
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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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Large numbers of part-time workers around the world, both those who choose to be part-time and those who are there involuntarily and would prefer a full-time job report they want more hours. Full-timers who say they want to change their hours mostly say they want to reduce them. When recession...
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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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Using data from all those born in a single week in 1958 in Britain we track the consequences of short pain and chronic pain in mid-life (age 44) on health, wellbeing and labor market outcomes in later life. We examine data taken at age 50 in 2008, when the Great Recession hit and then five years...
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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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