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simultaneously increasing boys' labour input in household chores. This puts into question the existence of gender preferences in … schooling in Lesotho and suggests that impacts on child welfare are influenced by time and labour constraints and by gender …
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Mozambique. Gender roles, shaped by patriarchal norms, place heavy work obligations on women. Time-use data from a primary …
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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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state of residence. Overall, the results suggest that policies that aim to increase women's education and promote gender …
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To investigate the role of gender norms in household specialisation choices, I conduct a lab experiment with real … hetero-sexual couples playing a battle of the sexes game. The salience of gender norms varies across treatments: the Norm … consistent with marriage market motives, i.e. some men may want to signal progressive gender attitudes to their partner. …
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-in-differences strategy is used to estimate the impact of the gender composition of the couple on the spousal income gap after childbirth. The … results indicate that the gender composition of the couple does matter for the division of labor after having children. Five … the same pre-parenthood income gap. Heterosexual couples' division of labor seems to be influenced by traditional gender …
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-in-differences strategy is used to estimate the impact of the gender composition of the couple on the spousal income gap after childbirth. The … results indicate that the gender composition of the couple does matter for the division of labor after having children. Five … the same pre-parenthood income gap. Heterosexual couples’ division of labor seems to be influenced by traditional gender …
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In 2020, parents' work-from-home days increased fourfold following the initial COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period compared to 2015-2019. At the same time, many daycares closed, and the majority of public schools offered virtual or hybrid classrooms, increasing the demand for household-provided...
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