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Economic incentives, home production and gender identity norms
Ichino, Andrea; Olsson, Martin; Petrongolo, Barbara; … - 2019
We infer the role of gender identity norms from the reallocation of childcare across parents, following changes in their relative wages. By exploiting variation from a Swedish tax reform, we estimate the elasticity of substitution in parental childcare for the whole population and for...
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On within-couple time allocation : gendered disparities in paid work and housework in Europe
Tverdostup, Maryna; Sabouniha, Alireza - 2024
housework in heterosexual dual-earner couples. Relying on the second wave of Harmonised European Time Use Survey (HETUS) data … for 10 European countries, we estimate spousal relative worktime and housework to analyse within-couple time …-use arrangements. The results show that the disparity between a wife's and a husband's workhours is gradually narrowing, yet housework …
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Incorporating fairness motives into the impulse balance equilibrium and quantal response equilibrium concepts : an application to 2x2 games
Tavoni, Alessandro - 2009
successful in terms of fit to the experimental data: EQRE, IBE, EIBE, QRE and Nash equilibrium. -- Fairness ; Inequity aversion …
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Electrification and socio-economic empowerment of women in India
Sedai, Ashish Kumar; Nepal, Rabindra; Jamasb, Tooraj - 2020
This study examines the effect of quality of electrification on empowerment of women in terms of economic autonomy, agency, mobility, decision-making abilities, and time allocation in fuel collection in India. It moves beyond the consensus of counting electrified households as a measure of...
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OLS estimation of the intra-household distribution of expenditure
Lechene, Valérie; Pendakur, Krishna; Wolf, Alex - 2021
We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar, Lewbel and Pendakur (2013), extended to allow single-parent...
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The gendered division of paid and domestic work under lockdown
Andrew, Alison; Cattan, Sarah; Dias, Mónica Costa; … - 2021
' paid work took a larger hit than that of fathers, and that mothers spent substantially longer doing childcare and housework …
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The decline of home cooked food
Griffith, Rachel; Jin, Wenchao; Lechene, Valérie - 2021
The share of home-cooked food in the diet of UK households declined from the 1980s. This was contemporaneous with a decline in the market price of ingredients for home cooking relative to ready-to-eat foods. We consider a simple model of food consumption and time use which captures the key...
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The grand experiment of communism : discovering the trade-off between equality and efficiency
Farvaque, Étienne; Mihailov, Alexander; Naghavi, Alireza - 2011
This paper aims to explain the rise and fall of communism by exploring the interplay between economic incentives and social preferences in different economic systems. We introduce inequality-averse and inefficiency-averse agents responding to economic incentives and transmitting their ideology...
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Exploitation as the unequal exchange of labour : an axiomatic approach
Yoshihara, Naoki; Veneziani, Roberto - 2009
In subsistence economies with general convex technology and rational optimising agents, a new, axiomatic approach is developed, which allows an explicit analysis of the core positive and normative intuitions behind the concept of exploitation. Three main new axioms, called Labour Exploitation in...
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Equity and justice in global warming policy
Kverndokk, Snorre; Rose, Adam - 2008
Many countries are implementing or at least considering policies to counter increasingly certain negative impacts from climate change. An increasing amount of research has been devoted to the analysis of the costs of climate change and its mitigation, as well as to the design of policies, such...
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