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Burda, Michael C; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Using time-diary data from 25 countries, we demonstrate that there is a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and the female-male difference in total work time per day—the sum of work for pay and work at home. In rich northern countries on four continents there is no...

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Gender Discrimination: The Role of Males and Per Capita Income

Rahim, Fazeer; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper models gender discrimination in the labor market as originating from bargaining between husbands and wives within the family. The husband-wife household bargains over resource distribution, with each spouse's bargaining power determined by his/her market income. Men are reluctant to...

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Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities …

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Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany

Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P; Siedler, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common …

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Unravelling Secularization: an International Study

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones, personal attributes and marriage variables)...

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Intrafamily Resource Allocations: A Dynamic Model of Birth Weight

del Bono, Emilia; Ermisch, John F; Francesconi, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

virtually no effect. Mothers' work interruptions of up to two months before birth have a positive effect on birth outcomes …, especially among British children. Parental behavior appears to respond to permanent family-specific unobservables and to child … their prenatal inputs across children. Evidence of equal concerns emerges also from the analysis of breastfeeding decisions …

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Were American Parents Really Selfish? Child Labour in the 19th Century

Bhaskar, Venkataraman; Gupta, Bishnupriya - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

children. Contrary to Parsons and Goldin (1989), we find that parental location choices were dictated by constraints rather …

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Free to Leave? A Welfare Analysis of Divorce Regimes

Fernández, Raquel; Wong, Joyce Cheng - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

During the 1970s the US underwent an important change in its divorce laws, switching from mutual consent to a unilateral divorce regime. Who benefited and who lost from this change? To answer this question we develop a dynamic life-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor...

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Mommy Tracks and Public Policy: On Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and Gender Gaps in Promotion

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Vagstad, Steinar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

Consider a model with two types of jobs. The profitability of promoting a worker to a fast-track job depends not only on his or her observable talent, but also on incontractible effort. We investigate whether self-fulfilling expectations may lead to women meeting tougher promotion standards than...

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Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores

Alesina, Alberto F; Ichino, Andrea; Karabarbounis, Loukas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey’s optimal criterion by taxing less the more elastic labour supply of (married) women. This holds when different elasticities between men and women are taken as exogenous and primitive. But in this paper we also explore differences in gender...

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