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In India, over the years, the progress in women’s nutritional status has been less impressive and remains as a major problem for health policy. The dual burden of nutritional disorder of women in India is posing a serious challenge not only for nutritional policy but also for socio-economic...
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of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model …
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production functions are specified in order to allow the computation of the household's opportunity cost for time, which is shown … household's labour supply and to a tentative explanation of the classic difference between cross-section and time … to be smaller in average than the household's wage net of taxes. This estimate serves to value time dedicated to domestic …
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This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature … suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while … spouses within each household, allowing for corner solutions and correlations in the unobservables across the system of six …
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of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model … to an increase in their wife’s wage. Non-labour income reduces paid work by parents and increases their non-market time …
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This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature … suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while … spouses within each household, allowing for corner solutions and correlations in the unobservables across the system of six …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010756957
of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model … to an increase in their wife's wage. Non-labour income reduces paid work by parents and increases their non-market time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014215080
This article introduces a newly discovered property of discrete-choice models, which I call the Invariant Proportion of Substitution (IPS). Like the Independence from Irrelevant Alternatives (IIA) property, IPS implies individual behavior that is counterintuitive in the context of choice among...
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We construct a general equilibrium model with home production where consumers choose how to spend their off-market time … using market consumption purchases. The time-intensities and productivities of different home production activities …
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This paper presents a model of consumption and household production that takes into account substitution between health …
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