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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 … nonparental childcare arrangements in Turkey-care of children by grandparents and nannies-became undesirable due to health …
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In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation. We investigate whether an increase in labor supply brought about by a reduction in taxes is always associated with a reduction in parental time devoted to children, which...
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this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases parents' time spent looking after children and working. Using …
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this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases parents' time spent looking after children and working. Using …
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This paper estimates the effects of having children at home on the labor market outcomes of women in Mexico during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings suggest that women with children at home experienced some additional negative impacts on their labor supply immediately after...
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The COVID19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in challenging … situations. We look at Germany and quantify the macroeconomic importance of working parents. We document that 26 percent of the … are affected if schools and child-care centers remain closed. In most European countries, the share of affected working …
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The COVID19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in challenging … situations. We look at Germany and quantify the macroeconomic importance of working parents. We document that 26 percent of the … are affected if schools and child-care centers remain closed. In most European countries, the share of affected working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231511
Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … educational activities and less time on physical and media related activities. These gender gaps in time allocation appear at very … young ages and widen overtime. We provide novel evidence that gender differentials in time investment are quantitatively …
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with childcare needs to those without. The first compares parents with young children and those without young children … at home and informal sources of childcare aided parents in avoiding negative shocks to their labor supply during the …We study the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on the labor supply of parents with young children. Using the monthly Current …
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We study the effects of sons versus daughters on parental joint time allocation between thelabor market and the household. Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Surveyfrom 1989 to 2006, we apply a fixed-effects model to control for cross-household hetero-geneity in son preference. We...
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