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Gender, time-use, and fertility recovery in industrialized countries
García-Manglano, Javier; Nollenberger, Natalia; … - 2014
This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit … replacement fertility rates - around two children per woman. Paradoxically, birth rates are substantially lower in countries in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434614
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Parental Attitude and Investment in Children’s Education and Health in Developing Countries
grossman, philip j.; Islam, Asadul; Begum, Lutfunnahar - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2014
This paper investigates whether parents’ inherent gender bias is associated with intrahousehold human capital investment among boys and girls. We conduct an artifactual field experiment to identify parents’ inherent gender bias and then attempt to examine how this attitude correlates with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011100038
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Gender differentiation in intergenerational care-giving and migration choices
Stark, Oded; Cukrowska-Torzewska, Ewa - 2018
We weave together care-giving, gender, and migration. We hypothesize that daughters who are mothers have a stronger incentive than sons who are fathers to demonstrate to their children the appropriate way of caring for one's parents. The reason underlying this hypothesis is that women on average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814121
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Gender differentiation in intergenerational care-giving and migration choices
Stark, Oded; Curkowska-Torzewska, Ewa - 2018
We weave together care-giving, gender, and migration. We hypothesize that daughters who are mothers have a stronger incentive than sons who are fathers to demonstrate to their children the appropriate way of caring for one's parents. The reason underlying this hypothesis is that women on average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790812
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Are sons and daughters substitutable? : a study of intra-household allocation of resources in contemporary Japan
Ono, Hiroshi - 2000 - Version: February 2003
Gender inequality in educational attainment remains a salient feature of contemporary Japanese society. This inequality lies not at the high school level but at the university level. Equal numbers of men and women advance to high school, but a significantly lower proportion of women advance to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009502713
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Gender Differentiation in Intergenerational Care-Giving and Migration Choices
Stark, Oded - 2018
We weave together care-giving, gender, and migration. We hypothesize that daughters who are mothers have a stronger incentive than sons who are fathers to demonstrate to their children the appropriate way of caring for one's parents. The reason underlying this hypothesis is that women on average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922642
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Happiness in old age : the daughter connection
Pataporn Sukontamarn; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; … - 2023
legacy of sex preference in fertility. We employ nationally representative data to examine the association between old …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250292
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How does gender quota shape gender attitudes?
Chen, Yen-Chien; Fan, Elliott; Ho, Yu-hsin; Lee, … - 2023
Starting in 2002, each electoral district in Taiwan is required to reserve one seat for women out of every four seats at the local councils, creating a 'zigzag' function of female councilors proportion across districts. Using this function, we estimate the effects of exposure to female political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014317893
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Public school access or stay-at-home partner : factors mitigating the adverse effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on academic parents
Deryugina, Tatyana; Shurchikov, Olga; Stearns, Jenna - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic created unexpected and prolonged disruptions to childcare access. Using survey evidence on time use by academic researchers before and after the pandemic, we analyze the extent to which greater access to either school-based or partner-provided childcare mitigated the severe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801484
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Public school access or stay-at-home partner: factors mitigating the adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on academic parents
Deryugina, Tatyana; Shurchkov, Olga; Stearns, Jenna - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic created unexpected and prolonged disruptions to childcare access. Using survey evidence on time use by academic researchers before and after the pandemic, we analyze the extent to which greater access to either school-based or partner-provided childcare mitigated the severe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805383