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Intra-household wealth and welfare inequality in the US : estimations from a collective model of labor supply

Molina, José Alberto; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; … - 2018

This paper analyzes the intra-household distribution of wealth and welfare in the United States, within a theoretical framework based on a collective model of labor supply, where household decisions are Pareto efficient, and spouses negotiate a sharing rule for non-labor income. Using the...

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Parental Child Care in Single Parent, Cohabiting, and Married Couple Families : Time Diary Evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom

Kalenkoski, Charlene M.; Ribar, David; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2006

This study uses time diary data from the 2003 American Time Use Survey and the United Kingdom Time Use Survey 2000 to examine the time that single, cohabiting, and married parents devote to caring for their children. Time spent in market work, in child care as a primary activity, and in child...

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The effect of children on the level of labor market involvement of married women : what is the role of education?

Troske, Kenneth R.; Voicu, Alexandru - 2009

propose an econometric model that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, for the heterogeneity … of the effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and for the correlation of sequential … ; education ; endogenous fertility decisions ; heterogeneous children effects ; multinomial probit model ; Gibbs sampler …

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The effect of the timing and spacing of births on the level of labor market involvement of married women

Troske, Kenneth R.; Voicu, Alexandru - 2009

women in a framework that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, the heterogeneity of the … effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and the correlation of sequential labor market … part time jobs. Individual heterogeneity plays an important role in the relationship between labor market and fertility …

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Frontier History and Gender Norms in the United States

Bazzi, Samuel; Brodeur, Abel; Fiszbein, Martín; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

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Do immigrants pay a price when marrying natives? : lessons from the US time use survey

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/16, pp. 1-37

We compare the allocation of time of native men and women married to immigrants against their counterparts in all-native couples using the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-18. We find that when intermarried to a native man, immigrant women pay an assimilation price to the extent that,...

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Do immigrants pay a price when marrying natives? : lessons from the US Time Use Survey

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - 2020

Using the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-18 we compare the allocation of time of native men and women married to immigrants with that of their counterparts in all-native couples. We find that when intermarried to a native some immigrant women pay an assimilation price to the extent...

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By what measure? : family time devoted to children in the U.S.

Folbre, Nancy; Yoon, Jayoung; Finnoff, Kade; Fuligni, … - 2004

We argue that previous research on time devoted to child care has devoted insufficient attention to the definition and conceptualization of care time. Three separate problems are evident. First, the conventional focus on explicit activities with children distracts attention from the larger...

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Institutions, social norms, and bargaining power : an analysis of individual leisure time in couple households

Gupta, Nabanita Datta (contributor); … - 2008

We exploit time use data from Denmark and the United States to examine the impact institutions and social norms have on individuals' bargaining power within a household, hypothesizing that the more generous social welfare system and more egalitarian social norms in Denmark will mitigate the...

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Is there still son preference in the United States?

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2019 - revised, October 2019

first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our … associated with lower fertility, particularly for natives. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference in … fertility decisions appears to have been outweighed by factors such as cost concerns in raising girls or increased female …

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