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If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands: How Do Mothers and Fathers Really Feel about Child Caregiving?
Connelly, Rachel; Kimmel, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
women as evidenced by their average values for happiness, tiredness, and stress, their predicted values for the same three …
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Child Care and Female Decisions
Whelan, Stephen; Rammohan, Anu - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 8 (2005) 2, pp. 203-225
The extent to which maternal employment is influenced by the affordability of child care is the subject of empirical ambiguity in Australian studies. We contribute to this debate by examining the relationship between maternal employment decisions and child care costs using the HILDA (Household...
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Intra-family time allocation to housework - French evidence
Anxo, Dominique; Carlin, Paul - In: electronic International Journal of Time Use Research 1 (2004) 1, pp. 14-36
We analyse new time diary data from France to explore the relationship between economic variables and husbands’ share of housework time. Consistent with both bargaining and specialization models of the family, we find that the greater the husband’s share of labor income, the lower his share...
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Child Care Costs and the Employment Status of Married Australian Mothers
Rammohan, Anu; Whelan, Stephen - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
Using data from the HILDA (Household Income and Labour Dynamics), this paper examines the implications of child care costs on maternal employment status by distinguishing between full-time and part-time work. Our empirical approach uses an ordered probit model taking into account the endogeneity...
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Gender Bias in Tax Systems Based on Household Income
Andrienko, Yuri; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model of the household with young children present, that this assumption is not … the number and ages of children requires us to look for other explanations, and we argue that these can be found in the …
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The Effects of Endogamous Marriage on Family Outcomes: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Immigrant Flows During 1900-1930 in the United States
Wong, Ho-Po Crystal - Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics - 2014
Positive assortative matching in terms of traits like ethnicity, race and personality has been prevalent in marital formation. One possible explanation for this is that husbands and wives in endogamous marriages have complementary skills and tastes that increase marital surplus. This paper aims...
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Identifying Gender Bias in Parental Attitude: An Experimental Approach
grossman, philip j.; Islam, Asadul; Begum, Lutfunnahar - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2014
Using experimental techniques, we identify parental attitudes toward different-gendered children in rural Bangladesh …. We randomly selected households that had at least two school-age children (6–18 years) of different genders. Parents … toward children of a specific gender; 2) neither parent is systematically biased; 3) there are no significant differences in …
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Parental Attitude and Investment in Children’s Education and Health in Developing Countries
grossman, philip j.; Islam, Asadul; Begum, Lutfunnahar - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2014
attempt to examine how this attitude correlates with the actual decisions regarding schooling and health of their own children …
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Do you get what you ask? The gender gap in desired and realised wages
Meriküll, Jaanika; Mõtsmees, Pille - Eesti Pank - 2015
This paper will study the gender wage gap in desired wages, realised wages and reservation wages. The notion of desired wages shows workers’ first bet to potential employers during the job-search process. Two datasets are employed, the electronic job-search portal database, where individuals...
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Use of Time and Value of Unpaid Family Care Work: a Comparison between Italy and Poland
Francavilla, Francesca; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; … - Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, … - 2011
The study provides a comparison of the size and value of unpaid family care work in two European member States, Italy and Poland. A micro-data analysis is conducted using the Italian and Polish time use surveys. Both the opportunity cost and the market replacement approaches are employed to...
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