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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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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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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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Season of Birth and Marital Outcomes
Oreffice, Sonia - 2014
marital status is related to quarter of birth by gender and race, also incorporating cohabitation as a separate relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398347
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Attractiveness, Anthropometry or Both? Their Relationship and Role in Economic Research
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2014
BMI, separately by gender and also accounting for interviewer fixed effects, in a nationally representative sample. We are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435235
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Attractiveness, Anthropometry or Both? Their Relationship and Role in Economic Research
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2014
BMI, separately by gender and also accounting for interviewer fixed effects, in a nationally representative sample. We are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491252