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Mozambique. Gender roles, shaped by patriarchal norms, place heavy work obligations on women. Time-use data from a primary …
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The consequence of the arrival of children for the gender wage gap - known as the child penalty - is substantial and … production is roughly equal across gender before and after the arrival of children. This result rejects the hypothesis that women …
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Virtually all models of the household assume that the allocation of resources is Pareto efficient. Within many African households, agricultural production occurs on many plots controlled by different members of the household. Pareto efficiency implies that factors should be allocated efficiently...
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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....
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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
We conducted an experiment in which we hired workers under different types of contracts to evaluate how flexible working time affects on-the-job productivity in a routine job. Our approach breaks down the global impact on productivity into sorting and behavioral effects. We find that all forms...
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mechanization with regard to time-use during land preparation, which leads to gender differentiation; for households using manual … negative effects on children were found. The study debunks some myths related to gender roles in African smallholder … agriculture, opens the field to more studies on technology adoption and time-use and suggests that gender roles are changing with …
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A growing body of scholarly literature has attempted to measure and value unpaid care work in various countries, but perhaps only the government statistical agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom have seriously undertaken periodic and systematic measures of the time spent on unpaid...
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The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model...
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The gender care gap, i.e., the difference between the amount of unpaid care work-such as childcare and housework … consistently when starting a family. At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, many feared that the gender care gap may … grow even larger. In fact, empirical analyses show that gender differences in care work did increase in young families at …
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