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extensive and intensive margins. We find that mothers are spending substantially longer in childcare and housework than their …COVID-19 has uprooted many aspects of parents' daily routines, from their jobs to their childcare arrangements. In this … partners and that they are spending a larger fraction of their paid work hours having to juggle work and childcare. Gender …
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higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively … more had high-status occupations. Together, these findings integrate contrasting narratives about frontier women …
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' paid work took a larger hit than that of fathers, and that mothers spent substantially longer doing childcare and housework …
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This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction between second earner wage differences, variation in the price of child care and...
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The paper documents employment and wage gaps, which arise between mothers and childless women, for a set of 28 European … as childcare and leave policies interaction. The findings from the fixed effects model reveal that childcare coverage for … gap in employment. The impact of the leaves depends, however, on childcare availability: long maternity leaves combined …
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living with a disabled mother in a two-parent household spend more time on homework and less time on housework and caring for …
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show that the time allocations of women with pre-school children are highly sensitive to changes in wages and the costs of …
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show that the time allocations of women with pre-school children are highly sensitive to changes in wages and the costs of …
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show that the time allocations of women with pre-school children are highly sensitive to changes in wages and the costs of …
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grandparent-provided child care affects fertility and labor force participation of women positively. However, grandparent … provide child care. We build a model of residence choice, fertility, and female labor force participation that can account for … the observed relationships. We simulate our model to analyze how women's decisions would change if the availability of …
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