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a 2001 household survey. We identified a gender-based division of labor characterized not so much by who does what type … inequality in the distribution of total time spent at work, we show that gender plays an important role in determining the …
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Using data from the 2003-14 American Time Use Survey (ATUS), this paper examines the relationship between the state unemployment rate and the time that opposite-sex couples with children spend on childcare activities, and how this varies by the socioeconomic status (SES), race, and ethnicity of...
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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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(i.e. number of solved mazes) serving as our proxy for labor supply. We demonstrate that gender identity and (dis …
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We study the impact of gender norms on the distribution of paid and unpaid labor between women and men in an intra … norm, agents are connected via explicitly modeled social networks and accordingly face heterogeneous perceptions of gender … norms. In our model, social pressure to conform to gender norms exacerbates gender inequalities in the distribution of paid …
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Optimal taxes for Europe and the U.S. are derived in a realistically calibrated model in which agents buy consumption goods and services and use home capital and labor to produce household services. The optimal tax rate on services is substantially lower than the tax rate on goods. Specifically,...
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parents of school-aged children in two-parent opposite-gender families. In line with existing evidence, we find that mothers … than their partners. We go further to show that these gender differences cannot be explained by gender differences in the … industries and occupations in which parents worked prior to the lockdown. Nor can they be explained by gender differences in …
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Survey results from Uruguay show that there is gender discrimination in the private labor market, and that women spend … into account to build a gender aware CGE model with endogenous labor supply and a home production function. This kind of … model is a useful tool to evaluate the impact of different policies, in particular those relating to gender. In this paper …
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We extend the search-matching model of the marriage market of Shimer and Smith (2000) to allow for labor supply, home production, match-specific shocks and endogenous divorce. We study nonparametric identification using panel data on marital status, education, family values, wages, and market...
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We document a negative trend in the leisure of men married to women aged 25-45, relative to that of their wives, and a positive trend in relative housework. Taken together, these trends rule out a popular class of labor supply models in which unitary households maximize the sum of the spouse's...
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