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I'm not fat, just too short for my weight: Family child care and obesity in Germany
Mahler, Philippe - 2007
Obesity is increasing worldwide for both adults and children. Genetic disposition is responsible for some variation in body weight but cannot explain the dramatic increase in the last two decades. The increase must be due to structural and behavioral changes. One such behavioral change is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315560
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Technology, institutions and allocation of time in Swedish households 1920 - 1990
Svensson, Lars - 2008
household production, which reduced the time input for a fixed volume of routine household work by about 35 per cent 1920 … time. What has been termed a Cowan paradox appears in the Swedish data: the output of household services increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273966
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Do reduced child care prices make parents work more?
Lundin, Daniela; Mörk, Eva; Öckert, Björn - 2007
This paper exploits exogenous variation in the price of child care stemming from a major child care price reform, to estimate the effects of child care costs on parents’ labour supply. The reform introduced a cap on the price that local governments could charge parents, and lead to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317927
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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?
Brewer, Mike - 2009
. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment rates, but a high proportion of non-workers say that they are not working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273971
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For some mothers more than others: How children matter for labour market outcomes when both fertility and female employment are low
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - 2012
low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children …. Among families with at least one child we identify the average causal effect of an additional child on mother's employment … to be -7.1 percentage points. However, we find no effect of additional children on female employment among families with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321396
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Marriage, Housework and Fairness
Widmalm, Frida - 1998
I explore the effects of a preference for fairness in the division of housework between two spouses in two different … models of household time allocation. Both in the model with agreeing spouses and the model with noncooperative spouses, such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321818
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Does Swedish Time-Use Data from 1984 and 1993 Support the Unitary Model?
Hallberg, Daniel - 2004
-used theoretical framework in microanalysis of the household labor supply. Because of its simplicity, the household members are assumed … themselves, that are the interesting economic agents. In this paper, I study the household decision to supply labor and test if … observed household labor supply could be an outcome of the single-criterion model. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321749
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Specialization in the bargaining family
Hyee, Raphaela; Robledo, Julio R. - 2009
have equal market and household productivities on the outset. If spouses are not able to enter into a binding contract …/her contribution and the provision level of the household good is likely to be inefficiently low. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280748
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Does providing childcare to unemployed affect unemployment duration?
Vikman, Ulrika - 2010
childcare is available. To investigate this, I use the heterogeneity among Swedish municipalities before the implementation of a … 2001 Swedish childcare reform making it mandatory for municipalities to offer child-care to unemployed parents for at least …. The results indicate a positive effect on the probability of leaving unemployment for mothers when childcare is available …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273924
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Does providing childcare to unemployed affect unemployment duration?
Vikman, Ulrika - 2010
childcare is available. To investigate this, I use the heterogeneity among Swedish municipalities before the implementation of a … 2001 Swedish childcare reform making it mandatory for municipalities to offer childcare to unemployed parents for at least …. The results indicate a positive effect on the probability of leaving unemployment for mothers when childcare is available …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321437