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inequality by household and gender. We develop a model with an increasingly right-skewed distribution of skill across households … and a gender wage gap within households. Household preference for basic income decreases as skill level increases and … increase in the marginal tax rate to fund required government revenue could excacerbate gender inequality by reducing female …
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This paper presents novel causal evidence on the effects of pro-natalist cash transfers on fertility, sex ratio at birth, and infant health. In the context of South Korea, I exploit rich spatial and temporal variation in cash transfers provided to families with newborn babies and the universe of...
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Since the early 1990s, several states in India have introduced financial incentive programs to discourage son preference among parents and to encourage investments in daughters' education and health. This study evaluates one such program in the state of Haryana, Apni Beti Apna Dhan (Our...
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We complement the institutional literature on gender and the welfare state by examining how taxes and transfers affect … various welfare regime types. We quantify the extent to which taxes and transfers are able to close the gender gap in earnings …-age pensions, taxes and transfers - both contributory and means-tested - significantly reduce gender income inequality but cannot …
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Gender differences in productivity, if any, that are unobserved to researchers may produce an omitted variable bias in … gender gap studies. Finding a subpopulation with less acute differences in unobserved characteristics would allow this … to different-sex households. Simultaneously, the gender wage gap between gays and lesbians is much smaller than in the …
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This paper first documents the extent of the specialization in time use in couple families, and the impact of children on this specialization. It then examines the links between the time allocations of partners in couple families, the impact of children on these links, and the effects these...
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their parents. -- Time allocations ; gender ; specialisation ; coordination …
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Das Geschlechterverhältnis, welches in hohem Maße durch geschlechterspezifische Arbeitsteilung von Erwerbsarbeit und … vorgezogen werden kann. Gängige Ansätze zur Erklärung familialer Arbeitsteilung sind somit in gleicher Weise geeignet bzw …
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Using population wide register data, I exploit the "speed premium" rule in the Swedish parental leave system to estimate the causal effect of a change in the level of benefits per day on the utilization of parental leave. The results show that a 1% (5 SEK ≈ $0.54) increase in the mother's...
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