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International trade and the transmission of temperature shocks

Osberghaus, Daniel; Schenker, Oliver - 2022

We examine how the adverse impacts of weather shocks are distributed through the trade network. Exploiting a rich …, theoretically derived, fixed effects structure, we find significant negative short-run effects of high temperature on exports. A … month with an average temperature above 30 °C implies export losses of around three percent. These effects are increasing in …

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Parental disability and teenagers' time allocation

Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2021

Using the 2003-2019 American Time Use Survey, we examine how living with a parent who has a work-limiting disability is related to teenagers' time allocation. For girls, we find that living with a disabled parent is associated with less time spent on educational activities, including both class...

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Time for children, a study of parents' time allocation

Hallberg, Daniel; Klevmarken, Anders - 2001

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Birth Order and Child Outcomes : Does Maternal Quality Time Matter?

Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2012

Higher birth order positions are often associated with poorer outcomes, possibly due to fewer resources received within the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are due to unequal allocation of the particular resource...

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Children's Own Time Use and its Effect on Skill Formation

Borga, Liyousew Gebremedhin - 2015

Using time-use data from a longitudinal survey (covering Ethiopia, India and Vietnam), the present study examines how the amount of time children spend on different activities impacts their acquisition of cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Modeling the skill formation production function of...

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Birth Order and Child Outcomes : Does Maternal Quality Time Matter?

Monfardini, Chiara - 2012

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Do Parents Drink Their Children's Welfare? A Joint Analysis of Intra-Household Allocation of Time

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2013

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether excessive parental alcohol consumption leads to a reduction of child welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases time spent by parents looking after their children and working. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring...

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Taxation and parental time allocation under different assumptions on altruism

Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2014

In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation. We investigate whether an increase in labor supply brought about by a reduction in taxes is always associated with a reduction in parental time devoted to children, which...

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Birth order and child outcomes : does maternal quality time matter?

Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2012

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The vertical transmission of time use choices

Volland, Benjamin - 2012 - This version: 23rd February 2012

The present paper analyzes intergenerational correlations in leisure time use between parents and their adult children in order to gain an understanding of the importance of genetics and early childhood learning mechanisms in preference formation. Data from the British Household Panel Survey...

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