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We present identification and estimation results for the "collective" model of labour supply in which there are …
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This paper studies how gender and income dynamics influence the division of responsibility in two-adult households for … equally, and income ranking is more important than gender in defining household roles, with higher earners more likely to have …
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Sub-Saharan Africa continues to post one of the highest gender gaps in educational outcomes in the world. Gender gaps … explores two potential sources of gender bias: bias in the decision to enrol/keep boys and girls in school; and bias in the … educational expenditure on boys and girls enrolled in school. Our findings are illuminating: gender bias in households …
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the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
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While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German socio-economic panel study. In married and cohabiting couples...
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How does future income uncertainty affect child labour and human capital accumulation? Using a unique panel dataset, we examine the effect of changes in climate variability on the allocation of time among child labour activities (the intensive margin) as well as participation in education and...
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first child's gender. For the sample of South Korean households I find strong evidence of unobserved heterogeneity across …
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We construct a joint distribution of fertility and children's activities treating the Poisson process generating the number of children as being endogenous in the multinomial logit process generating children's activities using a latent factor structure. Latent factors are incorporated into the...
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Joint household decision-making may be prevented by the incentives of individuals to withhold information or avoid bargaining. We study whether these barriers to joint decision-making keep female labor force participation low in India. In partnership with one of India’s largest carpet...
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The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...
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