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Gender differences in time poverty in rural Mozambique
Arora, Diksha - 2014
Mozambique. Gender roles, shaped by patriarchal norms, place heavy work obligations on women. Time-use data from a primary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557755
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Family Tax Splitting: A Microsimulation of its Potential Labour Supply and Intra-household Welfare Effects in Germany
Laisney, François; Beninger, Denis; Beblo, Miriam - 2003
This paper assesses the effects that an introduction of the French family splitting mechanism would have on German families' labour supply and intra-household consumption behaviour. We use simulated real world microdata created by means of a 'deterministic' collective labour supply model. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297284
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Intra-household Time Allocation: Gender Differences in Caring for Children
García, Inmaculada; Molina, José Alberto; Montuenga, … - 2009
Optionen der Entrepreneurship Education. This paper analyses the intra-household allocation of time to show gender differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600841
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Child Penalties and the Gender Gap in Home Production and the Labor Market
Koopmans, Pim; van Lent, Max; Been, Jim - 2024
The consequence of the arrival of children for the gender wage gap - known as the child penalty - is substantial and … production is roughly equal across gender before and after the arrival of children. This result rejects the hypothesis that women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533848
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Understanding the link between gendered access to agricultural land and household nutrition outcomes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Mwisha-Kasiwa, Janvier; Mosengo, Cédrick Kalemasi; … - 2023
agricultural land and nutritional outcomes by examining gender differences. Results suggest significant effects of access to …, gender differences are reported. Access to agricultural land appears to be a significant determinant of improved children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549317
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Coping Strategies in Post-War Rural Mozambique
Brück, Tilman - 2003
This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub- Saharan Africa. A case study using farm household survey data estimates the determinants of agricultural coping...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260706
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Women's Economic Capacity and Children's Human Capital Accumulation
de Hoop, Jacobus; Premand, Patrick; Rosati, Furio C.; … - 2017
Programs that increase the economic capacity of poor women can have cascading effects on children's participation in school and work that are theoretically undetermined. We present a simple model to describe the possible channels through which these programs may affect children's activities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653229
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Rural shadow wages and youth agricultural labor supply in Ethiopia: Evidence from farm panel data
Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu; Gerber, Nicolas - 2017
gender- and age-specific values of agricultural labor return (shadow wages), we systematically analyse trends, patterns and … results indicate that trends and patterns of the youth's involvement in agriculture vary across gender and farm work locations … gender, whilst their participation in off-farm activities is increasing. The findings also suggest that changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011869289
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Testing the Pareto efficiency of household resource allocations
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2008
In a careful and thorough empirical study, Christopher Udry (1996) shows convincingly that, in a large sample of West African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto inefficiency of a household resource allocation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264378
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The Demand for Gratitude as a Restraint on the Use of Child Labor: A Hypothesis
Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor - 2022
We study a parent's demand for gratitude from his child. We view this demand as an intervening variable between the parent's earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises from the desire of a parent to receive care and support from his child late in life, while the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882626