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Weather and Intertemporal Labor Supply : Results from German Time-Use Data
Krüger, Jens J. - 2017
labor supply model with German time-use data and weather information. Our results provide some evidence on an interday labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960390
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Natives and migrants in home production : the case of Germany
Forlani, Emanuele; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Mendolicchio, … - 2016
In this paper, we assess the impact of international migration, and the induced home-care service labour supply shock, on fertility decisions and labour supply of native females in Germany. Specifcally, we consider individual data of native women from the German Socio-Economic Panel and we merge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544260
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Do alimony regulations matter inside marriage? : evidence from the 2008 reform of the German maintenance law
Schaubert, Marianna - 2018
This study investigates how West German spouses have responded by adjusting their time allocation to the alimony reform introduced in 2008. This reform imposed financial self-responsibility after a finalized divorce. It weakened the relative bargaining position of the spouse with a claim for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011802026
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Children and Parents Time Use : Empirical Evidence on Investment in Human Capital in France, Italy and Germany
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Fontainha, Elsa; Monfardini, Chiara - 2021
We analyze a mechanism that has been disregarded in the literature on parental investment in children, as little attention has been devoted to the choices made by children themselves. We model directly time use by youngsters into activities related to the acquisition of human capital,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324799
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The effect of temperature on energy use and CO2 emissions in the German industry
Lehr, Jakob; Rehdanz, Katrin - 2021 - Preliminary draft
. To study the effect of temperature on energy use and CO2 emissions daily temperature information from 11.000 German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013335936
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Reversing the question : does happiness affect consumption and savings behavior?
Guven, Cahit - 2009
I examine the impact of happiness on consumption and savings behavior using data from the DNB Household Survey from the Netherlands and the German Socio-Economic Panel. Instrumenting individual happiness with regional sunshine, the results suggest that happier people save more, spend less, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635835
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There is no place like work : evidence on health and labor market behavior from changing weather conditions
Chadi, Adrian - 2017 - This version: August 29, 2017
measures. This study makes use of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel merged with data on regional weather conditions … prior to the date of a survey interview. Weather conditions are capable of affecting peoples' health. While bad weather … as whether the weather manipulates people's allocation of working time and leisure. The evidence seems to support the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011717841
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If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands : how do mothers and fathers really feel about child caregiving?
Connelly, Rachel; Kimmel, Jean - 2013
This paper considers the question posed by popular media, do women like doing child care more than men? Using experienced emotions data paired with 24 hour time diaries from the 2010 American Time Use Survey, the paper explores gender differences in how men and women who have done some child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009783670
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The stress cost of children
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wooden, Mark - 2015
We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how demographic events affect perceived time and financial stress. Consistent with the view of measures of stress as proxies for the Lagrangean multipliers in models of household production,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472536
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Widows' time, time stress and happiness: adjusting to loss
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika - 2021
By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current Population Survey allow inferring the short- and longer-term effects of an arguably exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517842