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Patterns of Time Use Among Older People
Ferranna, Maddalena; Sevilla, J. P.; Zucker, Leo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze time use studies to describe how people allocate their time as they age, especially among paid work, unpaid work, leisure, and personal care. We emphasize differences in time allocation between older (i.e., those aged 65+) and younger people; between developed and developing countries;...
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The Household Equipment Revolution
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512107
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The Child Penalty Atlas
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
sizable child penalties: men and women follow parallel trends before parenthood, but diverge sharply and persistently after … parenthood. While this qualitative pattern is pervasive, there is enormous variation in the magnitude of the effects across … gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in …
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The Evolution of Work from Home
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Full days worked at home account for 28 percent of paid workdays among Americans 20-64 years old, as of mid 2023, according to the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes. That's about four times the 2019 rate and ten times the rate in the mid-1990s that we estimate in time-use data. We...
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Education Gradients in Parental Time Investment and Subjective Well-being
Kalil, Ariel; Mayer, Susan E.; Delgado, William; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
College-educated mothers spend substantially more time in intensive childcare than less educated mothers despite their higher opportunity cost of time and working more hours. Using data from the 2010-2013 and 2021 waves of the Well-being Module of the American Time Use Survey, we investigate...
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Unconditional Cash and Family Investments in Infants : Evidence from a Large-Scale Cash Transfer Experiment in the U.S
Gennetian, Lisa A.; Duncan, Greg J.; Fox, Nathan A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
A key policy question in evaluating social programs to address childhood poverty is how families receiving unconditional financial support would spend those funds. Economists have limited empirical evidence on this topic in the U.S. We provide causal estimates of financial and time investments...
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The Impacts of Covid-19 Illnesses on Workers
Goda, Gopi Shah; Soltas, Evan J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We show that Covid-19 illnesses persistently reduce labor supply. Using an event study, we estimate that workers with week-long Covid-19 work absences are 7 percentage points less likely to be in the labor force one year later compared to otherwise-similar workers who do not miss a week of work...
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Firms' Sickness Costs and Workers' Sickness Absences
Böheim, René - 2014
In many countries, social security insures firms against their workers' sickness absences. The insurance may create a moral hazard for firms, leading to inefficient monitoring of absences or to an underinvestment in the prevention of absences. We exploit an administrative threshold in the...
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Post COVID-19 Test Score Recovery : Initial Evidence from State Testing Data
Halloran, Clare; Hug, Claire E.; Jack, Rebecca; Oster, Emily - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant disruption in schooling in the U.S., and student test scores showed dramatic declines by the end of the 2020-21 school year. We use state test score data to analyze patterns of test score recovery over the 2021-22 school year. On average, we find that 20%...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250131
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Artificial Intelligence, the Evolution of the Healthcare Value Chain, and the Future of the Physician
Dranove, David; Garthwaite, Craig - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming production across all sectors of the economy, with the potential to both complement and substitute for traditional labor inputs. Healthcare is no exception. Dozens of recent academic studies demonstrate that AI can contribute to the healthcare value...
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