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. Consistent with earlier studies, the analysis examines hypotheses relating to resources, objective demand, and gender attitudes …
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the relationship between earnings and housework, the “economic exchange” and “gender display” hypotheses. Our … on housework has two basic flaws. First, it has focused on the effects of women’s shares of couples’ total earnings on … their housework, and has not considered the simpler possibility of an association between women’s absolute earnings and …
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economics has focussed on gender differences in human capital to explain the gender wage gap. Although differences in male and … housework and wages in Britain and applies a variety of econometric techniques to pin down the effect of housework on wages. It … further explores what dimensions of housework are at the root of the relationship between housework and wages. After …
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gender differences. This paper aims at exploring the link between gender, living arrangements, monetary poverty and home … excluded from homeownership than men. However, a closer look suggests that the gender gap in home ownership is essentially …
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Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that … empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the cross …-national level. To capture this long-term relationship, a new index of gender equality that stretches back to 1960 is introduced …
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Australia it remains around 17%. Thus, the gender pay gap continues to be an important policy issue. …
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, while also examining reporting differences in father involvement by parent gender. Data on 4,224 mother-father pairs are …
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In contrast to the prevailing preconception, Christian females engage in polygyny in most of sub-Saharan Africa. Based on individual-level data provided by the Demographic and Health Survey (2000, 2004, 2010) in Malawi, this study explores whether Christian identity reduces the likelihood that...
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household's patterns in both countries by looking at cultural, income and employment factors allowing a gender comparisons of … live and dissimilarities by gender in the presence of different living arrangements and in the impact of the different …
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The unequal treatment of children is not gender neutral from the parent side. Our results show that women try to … symmetry between mothers' and fathers' financial situations leads to the perpetuation of gender inequality through generations. …
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