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The EITC and maternal time use : more time working and less time with kids?

Bastian, Jacob; Lochner, Lance - 2020

Parents spend considerable time and resources investing in their children's development. Given evidence that the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) affects maternal labor supply, we investigate how the EITC affects a broad array of time-use activities, focusing on the amount and nature of time...

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The earned income tax credit and maternal time use: more time working and less time with kids?

Bastian, Jacob; Lochner, Lance - 2020

Parents spend considerable sums investing in their children's development, with their own time among the most important forms of investment. Given well-documented effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on maternal labor supply, it is natural to ask how the EITC affects other time...

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How Do Parents Allocate Time?

Bloemen, Hans; Stancanelli, Elena - 2008

simultaneously specifies three time-use choices -paid work, childcare, and housework- and wage and employment equations for each … of the standard hypothesis that performing housework does not bring utility. Parents' market time responds positively to … changes in own wage. The own-wage elasticity of housework is negative while childcare does not react to changes in own wage …

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How Do Parents Allocate Time? The Effects of Wages and Income

Bloemen, Hans; Stancanelli, Elena - 2021

simultaneously specifies three time-use choices - paid work, childcare, and housework - and wage and employment equations for each … of the standard hypothesis that performing housework does not bring utility. Parents' market time responds positively to … changes in own wage. The own-wage elasticity of housework is negative while childcare does not react to changes in own wage …

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Gender bias in tax systems based on household income

Andrienko, Jurij; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014

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 determinants of housework time : boosting the efficiency of household production could have large economic effects

Stratton, Leslie S. - 2015

The time household members in industrialized countries spend on housework and shopping is substantial, amounting on … should also note the impact of tax policy on housework time and consider ways to reduce the distortions caused by sales and …

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The influence of household composition on leisure time in South Africa : a gender comparison

Harrichurran, Priyanka; Vermaak, Claire; Muller, Colette - 2021

This study considers how household composition influences the leisure time of men and women in South Africa, using the South African 2010 Time Use Survey. Studying leisure time is important since the allocation of time outside the market provides insights into market behaviour and physical and...

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Intrahousehold allocation of household production: a comparative analysis for Sub-Saharan African countries

Rios-Avila, Fernando; Oduro, Abena D.; Pires, Luiza Nassif - 2021

In this working paper, we analyze factors that may explain gender differences in the allocation of time to household production in sub-Saharan Africa. The study uses time use survey data to analyze the determinants of time spent on household production by husbands and wives in nuclear families...

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Does Teleworking Affect Housework Division and Improve the Well-Being of Couples?

Giovanis, Eleftherios - 2018

teleworkers spend more time on housework, while teleworking increases the probability that the household chores examined in this …

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Female employment and childcare

Hassani-Nezhad, Lena - 2020

effects of childcare subsidies on labour supply, fertility, marriage, and childcare decisions in a collective setting. In the … improves the quality of children as a household good. This increases gains from marriage and results in an increase in the …

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