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Couple's labor supply, taxes, and the division of housework in a gender-neutral lab
Schröder, Melanie; Burow, Norma - 2016 - This version: July 4, 2016
We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to investigate intra-couple labor supply decisions and the division of housework … decide upon the allocation of an unpaid task serving as our proxy for housework. In our gender neutral lab, we find tax …-effects only on men’s labor supply but not on women’s and no gender differences in the allocation of housework. Instead, the …
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Dividing housework between partners : individual preferences and social norms
Cavapozzi, Danilo; Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2024
Using UK longitudinal data on dual-earner couples, this paper estimates a model of intrahousehold housework decisions … use housework arrangements to compensate for differentials in labor market involvement, women end up performing a … substantially larger share of housework. This is not due to specialization, rather social norms play a key role. Exposure to more …
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Dividing housework between partners : individual preferences and social norms
Cavapozzi, Danilo; Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2024
Using UK longitudinal data on dual-earner couples, this paper estimates a model of intrahousehold housework decisions … use housework arrangements to compensate for differentials in labor market involvement, women end up performing a … substantially larger share of housework. This is not due to specialization, rather social norms play a key role. Exposure to more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015077848
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Of housewives and feminists: gender norms and intra-household division of labour
Görges, Luise - 2021
To investigate the role of gender norms in household specialisation choices, I conduct a lab experiment with real hetero-sexual couples playing a battle of the sexes game. The salience of gender norms varies across treatments: the Norm group chooses between strategies labelled as a family...
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Coupling labor supply decisions : an experiment in India
Lowe, Matt; McKelway, Madeline - 2021
Joint household decision-making may be prevented by the incentives of individuals to withhold information or avoid bargaining. We study whether these barriers to joint decision-making keep female labor force participation low in India. In partnership with one of India’s largest carpet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694133
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Gender, Information and the Efficiency of Household Production Decisions : An Experiment in Rural Togo
Apedo-Amah, Marie - 2020
Why do farm households inefficiently allocate resources across the plots they cultivate? We explore how these production inefficiencies relate to consumption decisions and information sharing within the household. In a lab-in-the-field experiment, male producers allocate too few inputs to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842042
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Gender, information and the efficiency of household production decisions : an experiment in rural Togo
Apedo-Amah, Marie Christine; Djebbari, Habiba; Ziparo, … - 2020
Why do farm households inefficiently allocate resources across the plots they cultivate? We explore how these production inefficiencies relate to consumption decisions and information sharing within the household. In a lab-in-the-field experiment, male producers allocate too few inputs to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168047
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Coupling Labor Supply Decisions : An Experiment in India
Lowe, Matt; McKelway, Madeline - 2021
Joint household decision-making may be prevented by the incentives of individuals to withhold information or avoid bargaining. We study whether these barriers to joint decision-making keep female labor force participation low in India. In partnership with one of India’s largest carpet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013312075
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Social norms or income taxation : what drives couple's labor supply? ; experimental evidence ; conference paper
Schröder, Melanie; Schmitt, Norma; Mantei, Britta; … - 2014 - This version: February 2014, Preliminary version
We investigate the determinants of couples labor supply within an experimental setting. On the one hand, we are interested in the effect of taxes on couples labor supply, but on the other hand we focus on factors beyond purely economic incentives: the role of the social norm of a male...
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Multitasking
Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2022
This chapter reviews economic studies on multitasking in household production. Whereas multitasking or task juggling in the workplace has been analyzed more widely, economic literature on multitasking in a household is relatively scarce. The chapter first provides relevant measures of such...
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