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Do Parents Drink Their Children's Welfare? A Joint Analysis of Intra-Household Allocation of Time

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether excessive parental alcohol consumption leads to a reduction of child welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases time spent by parents looking after their children and working. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring...

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The Effect of Filipino Overseas Migration on the Non-Migrant Spouse’s Market Participation and Labor Supply Behavior

Cabegin, Emily Christi A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper examines the effect of one partner’s overseas migration on the other non-migrant partner’s labor force participation and supply behavior. I compare the effect when the migrant partner is male and when she is female. The study uses merged 2003 data sets from the nationally...

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The Effects of a Universal Child Benefit

Gonzalez, Libertad - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated introduction of a new, sizeable, unconditional child benefit in Spain in 2007, granted to all mothers giving birth on or after July 1, 2007. The regression discontinuity-type design...

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Culture and Household Decision Making: Balance of Power and Labor Supply Choices of US-born and Foreign-born Couples

Oreffice, Sonia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This study investigates how spouses' cultural backgrounds mediate the role of intra-household bargaining in the labor supply decisions of foreign-born and US-born couples, in a collective-household framework. Using data from the 2000 US Census, I show that the hours worked by US-born couples,...

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Health Status and the Allocation of Time

Halliday, Timothy; Podor, Melinda - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

In this paper, we quantify the effects of health on time allocation. We estimate that improvements in health status have large and positive effects on time allocated to home and market production and large negative effects on time spent watching TV, sleeping, and consuming other types of...

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Social Interactions in the Labor Market

Grodner, Andrew; Kniesner, Thomas J.; Bishop, John A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

associated derived demands for labor. Individual and community factors may influence the average length of poverty spells. We … poverty rate of the county. We find that moving an individual from one standard deviation above the mean poverty rate to one … standard deviation below the mean poverty rate (from the inner city to the suburbs) lowers the average poverty spell by 20 …

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Retirement Responses to a Generous Pension Reform: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Eastern Europe

Danzer, Alexander M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

many development issues such as poverty reduction and social security, and despite the fact that population ageing will … fiscal burden on Ukraine, it significantly reduced the propensity of falling into poverty for those in retirement. …

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