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In this paper I compare the effect of entering parenthood on the spousal income gaps in lesbian and heterosexual couples using Swedish population wide register data. Comparing couples with similar pre-childbirth income gaps, a difference-in-differences strategy is used to estimate the impact of...
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labour supply decision of both female and male in a household. This paper analyses how an exogenous increase in fertility … differences in the cost of childcare rather than the characteristics of occupation or household bargaining power …
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phases that represent the key transitions in the life cycle of a typical household. Our contention is that, given the … policy. Before children arrive, the adult members of the household have high labour supplies and plenty of leisure. The …
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distribute their time between market work and household work, and the children may work in the labor market, do the household … of household members. Since empirical papers cannot find a clear relationship between child labor, wages and exogenous …
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case, structural elements of the decision process, such as individual preferences or the rule that determines the intra-household … distribution of welfare, can be identified if household demand for at least one commodity, together with the wife's labour supply …
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model, children are a household good, produced by both parental time and time in childcare. Couples cannot commit to insure … 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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adapted to these changed rulings in terms of labor supply, the intra-household allocation of leisure, and marital stability …' behavioral responses to the reform. The results do not confirm theoretical expectations from labor supply and household …
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Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets. To the extent that it is associated with lower prospects of being in couple and obtaining intra-couple transfers, we expect that higher BMI will increase willingness to supply...
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adapted to these changed rulings in terms of labor supply, the intra-household allocation of leisure, and marital stability …’ behavioral responses to the reform. The results do not confirm theoretical expectations from labor supply and household …, nicht bestätigen. Insbesondere gibt es keine Evidenz dafür, dass Frauen ihr Arbeitsangebot in Folge der Reform und der damit …
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the collective household model, we examine the possibility that men within couples use polygyny as a threat to influence …
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