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the household is an important factor that should be considered when analyzing household decisions …
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We analyze the relationship between sex-ratios in the region of residence, and the time devoted to paid and unpaid work by couples in Mexico (2002, 2009, 2014), Peru (2010), Ecuador (2012), Colombia (2012, 2017) and Chile (2015). We find that sex-ratios are negatively related to the time devoted...
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smoothing household consumption in environments characterized by income volatility. We use comparable individual data on about 1 …
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smoothing household consumption in environments characterized by income volatility. We use comparable individual data on about 1 …
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transitions between the states of nonparticipation, unemployed search, and employment. Motivated by a model of household search … analysis, and household specific unobserved heterogeneity is accounted for. Results show that female transitions into …
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. At the same time, the U.S. labor wedge, measured as the discrepancy between a representative household's marginal rate of … measured from a representative household model partly reflects inaccurate household aggregation. …
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justifications for these gender gaps, it is important to consider the presence of children in the household, the hours of work and …
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We present a model of the time-allocation decision of spouses in order to study the role of heterogeneity in preferences and wages for couples' labor supply. Spouses differ in their tastes for market consumption and non-market goods and activities, and also in their offered or earned wages. They...
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