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The consequence of the arrival of children for the gender wage gap - known as the child penalty - is substantial and … production is roughly equal across gender before and after the arrival of children. This result rejects the hypothesis that women …
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Programs that increase the economic capacity of poor women can have cascading effects on children's participation in school and work that are theoretically undetermined. We present a simple model to describe the possible channels through which these programs may affect children's activities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607421
Programs that increase the economic capacity of poor women can have cascading effects on children's participation in school and work that are theoretically undetermined. We present a simple model to describe the possible channels through which these programs may affect children's activities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964992
This paper analyses the intra-household allocation of time to show gender differences in childcare. In the framework of …
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. Comparing how parental caregiving time varies by gender and use of nonparental childcare arrangements, we find that new … constraints on nonparental childcare arrangements during the pandemic have potentially increased the gender difference in parental …
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This paper identifies how parental health shocks lead to long-term gender-specific penalty on adult children …
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ill child in Chile (SANNA) to identify the role of both economic incentives and gender norms on families' decisions … the threshold. To investigate the role of gender norms, we compare the effect of economic incentives among older, more … traditional families and younger families. Our results indicate that both gender norms and economic incentives affect parental …
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This paper explores how the relative circumstances of men and women following marital dissolution affect sex-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property rights after separation. We use this improvement in...
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To understand the household decision-making process regarding food expenditures for children in poor households in Nairobi, we conduct an experiment with 424 married couples. In the experiment, the spouses (individually and jointly) allocated money between themselves and nutritious meals for one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012631505
To understand the household decision-making process regarding food expenditures for children in poor households in Nairobi, we conduct an experiment with 424 married couples. In the experiment, the spouses (individually and jointly) allocated money between themselves and nutritious meals for one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012609205