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Economists have devoted substantial attention to firms’ supply of variety, but little to consumers’ demand for variety. Employing the framework of home production, we trace differences in demand to differences in the opportunity costs of activities, which are associated with investments in...
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We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in … and allow agents to trade home labor. This model can generate the observed patterns in US labor supply by gender and …
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Gender-differences in post-schooling skill investments play a central role in stratification processes. Yet little …
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decisions. We find that a tradeoff exists and that gender and ethnicity matter. Boys are more likely to work if pure market …
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, we find that, in the context of trade liberalization, gender inequality is likely to rise between adults and between boys …
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The aim of this paper is to explain why time use data are essential for analyzing issues of gender equity and the intra …
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This paper analyzes changes in the allocation of child labor within the household in reaction to exogenous shocks created by a social program in Nicaragua. The paper shows that households that randomly received a conditional cash transfer compensated for some of the intra-household differences,...
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influences gender differences in labor market outcomes and the household division of labor, in an economy with endogenous gender … labor market outcomes across genders. In turn, the differential labor market outcomes influence gender roles within the … crucial component of this good. Biological gender differences, namely women's ability to bear children, will be reflected 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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Recently, gender-aware computable general equilibrium models (CGE) have been developed to analyse the impact of trade … liberalization, with focus on a gender-disaggregated analysis of the production side of the economy. However, these studies ignore … the gender-specific consumption effects due to the paucity of gender disaggregated data. We introduce intra …
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