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Gender, information and the efficiency of household production decisions : an experiment in rural Togo
Apedo-Amah, Marie Christine; Djebbari, Habiba; Ziparo, … - 2020
Why do farm households inefficiently allocate resources across the plots they cultivate? We explore how these production inefficiencies relate to consumption decisions and information sharing within the household. In a lab-in-the-field experiment, male producers allocate too few inputs to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168047
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Gender, Information and the Efficiency of Household Production Decisions : An Experiment in Rural Togo
Apedo-Amah, Marie - 2020
Why do farm households inefficiently allocate resources across the plots they cultivate? We explore how these production inefficiencies relate to consumption decisions and information sharing within the household. In a lab-in-the-field experiment, male producers allocate too few inputs to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842042
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Women's Economic Capacity and Children's Human Capital Accumulation
de Hoop, Jacobus - 2017
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
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Testing the Pareto Efficiency of Household Resource Allocations
Apps, Patricia F. - 2008
In a careful and thorough empirical study, Christopher Udry (1996) shows convincingly that, in a large sample of West African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto inefficiency of a household resource allocation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771691
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The Demand for Gratitude as a Restraint on the Use of Child Labor : A Hypothesis
Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor - 2022
We study a parent's demand for gratitude from his child. We view this demand as an intervening variable between the parent's earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises from the desire of a parent to receive care and support from his child late in life, while the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083886
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The demand for gratitude as a restraint on the use of child labor : A hypothesis
Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor - 2022
We study a parent’s demand for gratitude from his child. We view this demand as an intervening variable between the parent’s earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises from the desire of a parent to receive care and support from his child late in life, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013308965
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The determinants of housework time : boosting the efficiency of household production could have large economic effects
Stratton, Leslie S. - 2015
driven in part by the gender differential in wages. Efforts to reduce the gender wage gap and alter gendered norms of … behavior should reduce the gender bias in household production time and reduce inefficiency in home production. Policymakers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430529
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Mommy tracks and public policy : on self-fulfilling prophecies and gender gaps in promotion
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Vagstad, Steinar - 2006
Consider a model with two types of jobs. The profitability of promoting a worker to a fast-track job depends not only on his or her observable talent, but also on incontractible effort. We investigate whether self-fulfilling expectations may lead to higher promotion standards for women. If...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010514906
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Beyond Ramsey : gender-based taxation with non-cooperative couples
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2012
This paper explores the implications of gender-based income taxation in a non- cooperative model of a couple's time … by gender is solely determined by spouses' relative marginal rates of substitution between the public household good and … sharp contrast to previous models of gender-based taxation in which households select Pareto efficient allocations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009631655
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Collective labour supply : heterogeneity and nonparticipation
Blundell, Richard W.; Chiappori, Pierre-André; Magnac, … - 2005
We present identification and estimation results for the "collective" model of labour supply in which there are discrete choices, censoring of hours and nonparticipation in employment. We derive the collective restrictions on labour supply functions and contrast them with restrictions implied by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003257851