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obtained in a setting where spouses are equally competitive in the labor market and there is no household production. It is … promotion in the same workplace, and the inclusion of household production. …We study how the presence of promotion competition in the labor market affects household specialization patterns. By …
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Unpaid work, which falls outside of the national income accounts but within the general production boundary, is viewed …
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household survey in Mozambique is used for this analysis. The main findings suggest that women's labor allocation to economic … activities is comparable to that of men. Household chores and care work are women's responsibility, which they perform with …
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Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether this correlation is driven by a causal effect, we exploit idiosyncratic variation in the extent of sexual integration in fathers' workplaces: Fathers who encounter more women in...
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school attendance were stronger for males and when the child was the youngest in the household. With respect to the labour … 17 years (Benefício Variável Jovem) on the time allocation of youths and on the labour supply of adults. The differences …
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that greater female bargaining power within households results in a variety of shifts in household production and …Gender affects household spending in two areas that have been widely studied in the literature. One strand documents … on education are examined empirically, at both the household and the individual level. Results are mixed, though the …
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these two years, between which income and earnings inequality increased, I analyze how household production is affected by … examine how income and time prices affect both time and goods input into this household-produced commodity. By focusing on … relatively more difficult as production expands. …
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household. The study of agricultural production reveals that Paraguayan women specialize in livestock and dairy production …Previous work has shown a pattern of lower household incomes for those Paraguayan farms with female landowners in the …, while men specialize in crop production. An analysis of crop specialization and crop yields finds no significant differences …
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Parents who undertake paid work are obliged to spend time away from their children, and to use nonparental childcare. This has given rise to concern that children are missing out on parental attention. However, time-use studies have consistently shown that parents who are in paid employment do...
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household production. Economic theory predicts that households with less money income will produce more goods at home. Thus … extended income, which includes the value of household production, should be more equally distributed than money income. We … household production. …
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