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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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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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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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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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Free schooling reverses sibling rivalry
Ferreira, João R.; Sandholtz, Wayne Aaron - 2024
We use administrative data to measure sibling spillovers on academic performance before and after Tanzania's introduction of Free Secondary Education (FSE). Prior to FSE, students whose older siblings narrowly passed the secondary school entrance exam were less likely to go to secondary school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015046234
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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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Educational hypogamy is associated with a smaller child penalty on women's earnings
Steiber, Nadia; Lebedinski, Lara; Liedl, Bernd; … - 2024
This study contributes to the literature on how parenthood affects the within-couple gender earnings gap. It examines how this "child penalty" on women's earnings varies with the education level of both partners and the woman's relative education within the couple. Using Austrian register data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015078019
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Educational hypogamy is associated with a smaller child penalty on women's earnings
Steiber, Nadia; Lebedinski, Lara; Liedl, Bernd; … - 2024
This study contributes to the literature on how parenthood affects the withincouple gender earnings gap. It examines how this 'child penalty' on women's earnings varies with the education level of both partners and the woman's relative education within the couple. Using Austrian register data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015080749