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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 … consistent with marriage market motives, i.e. some men may want to signal progressive gender attitudes to their partner. …
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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
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 … overcome the gender neutral lab. …
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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
(i.e. number of solved mazes) serving as our proxy for labor supply. We demonstrate that gender identity and (dis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483843
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Income taxation and labor supply : an experiment on couple's work effort ; conference paper
Schröder, Melanie; Schmitt, Norma; Heynemann, Britta; … - 2013 - This version: August 2013, Preliminary version
Complementary to microsimulation studies focusing on the impact of labor supply as a choice of hours worked we shed light on another variable that survey data are not capable of taking into account: the choice of work effort. Our aim is to investigate the effect of individual and joint taxation...
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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...
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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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Intra-Household Experiments
Munro, Alistair - 2023
In recent years experimental economists have explored intra-household decision-making, particularly in the context of developing economies. Both 'lab-in-the-field' and 'sandbox' style experiments have been conducted, changing our understanding of how households make decisions. This survey...
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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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Housework share between partners : experimental evidence on gender identity
Auspurg, Katrin; Iacovou, Maria; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2014
differences in gender identity between men and women. We find little evidence of any systematic gender differences in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419024