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the household is an important factor that should be considered when analyzing household decisions …
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We analyze the relationship between sex-ratios in the region of residence, and the time devoted to paid and unpaid work by couples in Mexico (2002, 2009, 2014), Peru (2010), Ecuador (2012), Colombia (2012, 2017) and Chile (2015). We find that sex-ratios are negatively related to the time devoted...
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allocates more time to paid work and less time to household production. The effect is evident for the daughters-in-law who co …-reside with mothers-in-law who have completed at least secondary education. The mother-in-law's time allocated to household … household production. Heterogeneity in results is observed by socio-religious groups and by the extent of patriarchy in the …
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smoothing household consumption in environments characterized by income volatility. We use comparable individual data on about 1 …
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smoothing household consumption in environments characterized by income volatility. We use comparable individual data on about 1 …
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Joint household decision-making may be prevented by the incentives of individuals to withhold information or avoid … predicts that both information and discussion should raise enrollment, and nearly all intra-household experts we surveyed gave … by as much as 50%. We sketch an alternative model in which interventions that make household decision-making more joint …
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. Instrumental variable fixed effects estimates using two different household panel datasets indicate that co-residence with a father …
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justifications for these gender gaps, it is important to consider the presence of children in the household, the hours of work and …
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We highlight the role of home productivity in explaining the gender gap in labor force participation (LFP), and the non-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United Kingdom, U.K.). We construct a model...
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