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regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of … children vis-à-vis home production. This paper finds that, similarly to higher-income countries, there is a positive education … better care for their children, thus increasing the socioeconomic gap. …
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children can amplify existing inequalities across generations. Third, inequality can exist even within families, and the …
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parents of school-aged children in two-parent opposite-gender families. In line with existing evidence, we find that mothers …
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This paper aims to pursue a deeper understanding of gendered within-couple allocation of time into paid work and 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...
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We estimate female and male workers' marginal willingness to pay to reduce commuting distance in Germany, using a … differences in labour market biographies. For estimation, we use a stratified partial likelihood model on a large administrative … dataset for West Germany to flexibly account for both unobserved individual heterogeneity and changes dependent on wages and …
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This paper estimates the effect of childcare availability on parents' employment probability using the timing of death of grandmothers-the primary childcare providers in Mexico-as identifying variation. I use a triple-difference to disentangle the effect of coinhabiting grandmothers' deaths due...
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We draw lessons from existing work and our own analysis on the effects of parental leave and other interventions aimed at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with a discussion of the historical introduction of family...
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