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Hidden consequences of a first-born boy for mothers
Ichino, Andrea; Lindström, Elly-Ann; Viviano, Eliana - 2011
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Hidden consequences of a first-born boy for mothers
Ichino, Andrea; Lindström, Elly-Ann; Viviano, Eliana - In: Economics letters 123 (2014) 3, pp. 274-278
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Hidden consequences of a first-born boy for mothers
Ichino, Andrea; Lindström, Elly-Ann; Viviano, Eliana - 2011
sons ; mothers' behaviour …
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Hidden Consequences of a First-Born Boy for Mothers
Ichino, Andrea - 2011
We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical week and work fewer hours than women with first-born girls. The puzzle is why women in these countries react in this way to the sex of their first child, which is chosen...
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Shopping around : how households adjusted food spending over the Great Recession
Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate - 2015
Over the Great Recession UK households reduced real food expenditure. We show that they were able to maintain the number of calories that they purchased, and the nutritional quality of these calories, by adjusting their shopping behaviour. We document the mechanisms that households used. We...
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The effect of food prices and household income on the British diet
De Agostini, Paola - 2014
This paper investigates the effect of price variations on the diet composition in Britain. It describes the dynamics of food demand in relation to food prices over time using data from the British National Food Survey (NFS) covering the period 1975-2000. Demand elasticities with respect to price...
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Shopping around? : how household adjusted food spending over the great recession
Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate - 2014
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Shopping around : how households adjusted food spending over the great recession
Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate - In: Economica 83 (2016) 330, pp. 247-280
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Maternal gender role attitudes, human capital investment, and labour supply of sons and daughters
Johnston, David; Schurer, Stefanie; Shields, Michael - 2012
's later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 … their mothers held non-traditional (pro-gender-equality) beliefs, even if they were not working themselves. Consistent with …-traditional attitudes from mothers to their children explain a substantive part of gender inequalities in economic opportunities, and that …
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Maternal Gender Role Attitudes, Human Capital Investment, and Labour Supply of Sons and Daughters
Johnston, David W. - 2012
's later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 … their mothers held non-traditional (pro-gender-equality) beliefs, even if they were not working themselves. Consistent with …-traditional attitudes from mothers to their children explain a substantive part of gender inequalities in economic opportunities, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104663