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- influence his or her contribution to housework? (2) If so, does the magnitude of this influence differ by gender? and (3) How … important are traditional gender roles on housework allocation? We address these issues by applying panel quantile regression …, with the latter effect being roughly equal across genders. At the same time, traditional gender roles also appear to …
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We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in … and allow agents to trade home labor. This model can generate the observed patterns in US labor supply by gender and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264757
This paper examines the impact of unemployment on life satisfaction for Germany 1984-2006, using a sample of men and women from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Across the board we find large significant negative effects for unemployment on life satisfaction. This paper expands on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274365
- influence his or her contribution to housework? (2) If so, does the magnitude of this influence differ by gender? and (3) How … important are traditional gender roles on housework allocation? We address these issues by applying panel quantile regression …, with the latter effect being roughly equal across genders. At the same time, traditional gender roles also appear to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860287
We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in … and allow agents to trade home labor. This model can generate the observed patterns in US labor supply by gender and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005436116
This paper examines the impact of unemployment on life satisfaction for Germany 1984–2006, using a sample of men and women from the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP). Across the board we find large significant negative effects for unemployment on life satisfaction.This paper expands on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561993
More than 3 billion people use wood fuels for their daily cooking needs, with detrimental health implications related to smoke emissions. Global initiatives to disseminate clean cooking stoves emphasize technologies that are either expensive, such as electricity and gasifier stoves, or for which...
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Smoke from cooking in the kitchen is one of the world's leading causes of premature child death, claiming the lives of 500,000 children under five annually. This study analyses the role of outdoor cooking and the prevalence of respiratory diseases among children under five years by means of...
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The shale gas revolution in the United States induced an unprecedented commodity boom across northwestern India. Leveraging population-based discontinuities in the contemporaneous roll-out of India's national rural electrification scheme, we show that access to electricity increased total...
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Migration is one of the channels West African populations can use to adjust to the negative impacts of climate change. Using novel geo-referenced and high-frequency data, this study investigates the extent to which soil moisture anomalies drive international migration decisions within the region...
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