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Fat spouses and hours of work: are body and Pareto weights correlated?
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-21
We explore the relationship between relative physical attractiveness in the household and the hours worked by married men and women. Using PSID data, we find that husbands who are thinner relative to their wives work fewer hours, while wives who are heavier relative to their husbands work more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725327
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Gender Inequality in Covid-19 Times : Evidence from UK Prolific Participants
Oreffice, Sonia - 2020
We investigate gender differences across socioeconomic and wellbeing dimensions after three months of lockdown in the … hours, but increased housework and childcare much more than men. These gender inequalities are not driven by differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828594
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Gender inequality in COVID-19 times : evidence from UK prolific participants
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020 - Revised version: 12December2020
We investigate gender differences across multiple dimensions after three months of the first UK lockdown of March 2020 … and housework more than men. Neither the gender gaps in COVID-19-related health and economic concerns nor the gender gaps … find that the gender gap in mental health can be partially accounted for by the difference in COVID-19-related health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391050
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Gender inequality in COVID-19 times: evidence from UK prolific participants
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020
We investigate gender differences across socioeconomic and wellbeing dimensions after three months of lockdown in the … hours, but increased housework and childcare much more than men. These gender inequalities are not driven by differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249106
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Commuting to work and gender norms by sexual orientation
Oreffice, Sonia; Sansone, Dario - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 85 (2023), pp. 1-16
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014475842
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Fat spouses and hours of work: Are body and Pareto weights correlated?
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-21
We explore the relationship between relative physical attractiveness in the household and the hours worked by married men and women. Using PSID data, we find that husbands who are thinner relative to their wives work fewer hours, while wives who are heavier relative to their husbands work more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331908
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Fatter attraction: anthropometric and socioeconomic characteristics in the marriage market
Chiappori, Pierre-André; Oreffice, Sonia; … - 2009
We construct a matching model on the marriage market along more than one characteristic, where individuals have preferences over physical attractiveness (proxied by anthropometric characteristics) and market and household productivity of potential mates (proxied by socioeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269642
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Matching with a handicap: The case of smoking in the marriage market
Chiappori, Pierre-André; Oreffice, Sonia; … - 2010
, while individuals always prefer high socioeconomic quality. Furthermore, there is a gender difference in smoking prevalence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278624
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Fatter attraction: Marital status and the relationship between BMI and labor supply
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2009
We empirically analyze the labor supply choices of married men and women according to their body size (BMI), using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics on anthropometric characteristics of both spouses, and unmarried men and women as comparison group. Heavier husbands are found to work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279629
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Gender Inequality in COVID-19 Times: Evidence from UK Prolific Participants
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020
We investigate gender differences across socioeconomic and wellbeing dimensions after three months of lockdown in the … hours, but increased housework and childcare much more than men. These gender inequalities are not driven by differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270141