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Impact of paternal temporary absence on children left behind
Booth, Alison L.; Tamura, Yuji - 2009
Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, we investigate how a father's temporary absence affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271894
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Impact of Paternal Temporary Absence on Children Left Behind
Booth, Alison L.; Tamura, Yuji - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, we investigate how a father's temporary absence affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103266
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Impact of paternal temporary absence on children left behind
Booth, Alison L.; Tamura, Yuji - 2009
Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, we investigate how a father's temporary absence affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894803
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What Happens to the Labour Supply and Schooling of the Children Left Behind by Temporary Migrants?
Booth, Alison L.; Tamura, Yuji - 2018
Using Vietnamese panel data, we investigate how a father's temporary migration is associated with the labour supply and human capital investment of his child left behind. Our analysis shows that a longer absence of a father is associated with more housework and less education of his son if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201105
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Impact of Paternal Temporary Absence on Children Left Behind
Booth, Alison L. - 2009
Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, we investigate how a father's temporary absence affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155610
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Gender differences in willingness to compete : the role of culture and institutions
Booth, Alison L.; Fan, Elliott; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 129 (2019) 618, pp. 734-764
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034454
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Can risk-taking preferences be modified? : some experimental evidence
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 61 (2015) 1, pp. 7-32
to single-sex environments they behave the same as the males. Thus, part of the observed gender difference in behaviour … under uncertainty found in previous studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397630
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Gender differences in willingness to compete : the role of culture and institutions
Booth, Alison L.; Fan, Elliott; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2016
norms, including the promotion of gender equality in place of the Confucian view of female 'inferiority'. Market … consequence social norms gradually changed again. In our experiment we investigate gender differences in competitive choices … regimes outlined above. In particular we investigate gender differences in competitive choices for different birth cohorts in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581634
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Gender differences in willingness to compete : the role of culture and institutions
Booth, Alison L.; Fan, Elliott; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587179
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Can risk-taking preferences be modified? : some experimental evidence
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick - 2014
they behave the same as the males. Thus part of the observed gender difference in behavior under uncertainty found in … previous studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344873