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"boomerang" back home impact their parents in their pre-retirement and post-retirement years. We use data from the Health and … Retirement Study (HRS) to examine the effects of boomerang children on their parents' labor market expectations and choices, as …
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, older ages at retirement, and more years of service are associated with a greater probability of choosing a J&S annuity. We …
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how social security incentives and particularly their changes over time can explain the retirement decision. We calculate … indicators of benefit entitlement and derive retirement incentive measures. Using micro-estimation techniques, we find that more … generous retirement provision contribute to earlier retirement. Counterfactual reform simulations show strongly incentivizing …
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We provide the first systematic account of summer declines in women's labor market activity. From May to July, the employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women's total hours worked fall by 9.8 percent, more than...
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than sons. Although China's hukou mobility restrictions are not gender-specific in intent, they have larger adverse effects … on girls. Rural residents adjacent to cities that experience shocks to labor demand after China's accession to the WTO …
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China's distinctive demographic landscape, early retirement policies, and deeply ingrained gender norms provide a … unique backdrop for investigating gender disparities in retirement and subjective well-being. Drawing upon data from the … China Family Panel Studies and leveraging the variation around the pensionable age cutoff, we find substantial increases in …
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This paper explores how historical gender roles become entrenched as norms over the long run. In the historical United States, gender roles on the frontier looked starkly different from those in settled areas. Male-biased sex ratios led to higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land...
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This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...
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In this paper we develop a novel approach to measuring individual welfare within households, recognizing that individuals may have both different preferences (particularly regarding public consumption) and differential access to resources. We construct a money metric measure of welfare that...
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We measure the impact of the initial Indian national COVID-19 lockdown on digital activity using browser histories of 1,094 individuals, spanning over 31.5 million website visits on computers and mobile devices. Reflecting the predicted increase in the value of online activity, both men and...
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