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Immigrants and gender roles: Assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States-looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586050
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Time to work or time to play: the effect of student employment on homework, sleep, and screen time
Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2009
We use detailed time-diary information on high school students' daily activities from the 2003-2008 American Time Use Surveys (ATUS) to investigate the effects of employment on the time a student spends on homework and other major activities. Time-diary data are more detailed and accurate than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269483
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Time to work or time to play : the effect of student employment on homework, sleep, and screen time
Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2009
We use detailed time-diary information on high school students' daily activities from the 2003-2008 American Time Use Surveys (ATUS) to investigate the effects of employment on the time a student spends on homework and other major activities. Time-diary data are more detailed and accurate than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932167
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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States - looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392486
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Does it pay for women to volunteer?
Sauer, Robert M. - 2012
This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to engage in unpaid work, and to marry and have children, is formulated as a forward-looking discrete choice dynamic programming problem. Simulated maximum likelihood estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580551
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Birth order and child outcomes : does maternal quality time matter?
Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2012
Higher birth order positions are often associated with poorer outcomes, possibly due to fewer resources received within … the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are … negative birth order effects on various test scores are only slightly diminished when maternal time is included among the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009613677
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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States-looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404275
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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States – looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388335
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The summer drop in female employment
Price, Brendan M.; Wasserman, Melanie - 2022
We provide the first systematic account of summer declines in women's labor market activity. From May to July, the employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women's total hours worked fall by 11 percent, twice the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255840
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Parental leave reform and long-run earnings of mothers
Frodermann, Corinna; Wrohlich, Katharina; Zucco, Aline - 2020
mothers who gave birth just before and right after the reform and nets out season effects by including the year before. Using … have facilitated mothers' re-entry into the labor market and thereby increased earnings. For mothers with low prior-to-birth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175299