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Is the allocation of time gender sensitive to food price changes? : an investigation of hours of work in Uganda

Campus, Daniela; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2016

Uganda National Household Survey by adopting a Tobit-hybrid model. Our results show that gender differentials in the intra …

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Gender bias in tax systems based on household income

Andrienko, Jurij; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014

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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Does paternity leave reduce fertility?

Farré, Lídia; González, Libertad - 2018

We find that the introduction of two weeks of paid paternity leave in Spain in 2007 led to delays in subsequent fertility. Following a regression discontinuity design and using rich administrative data, we show that parents who were (just) entitled to the new paternity leave took longer to have...

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Labor supply under participation and hours constraints : an extended structural model for policy evaluations

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Neumann, Michael; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2018

The paper extends a static discrete-choice labor supply model by adding participation and hours constraints. We identify restrictions by survey information on the eligibility and search activities of individuals as well as actual and desired hours. This provides for a more robust identification...

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Culture, religiosity and female labor supply

Guner, Duygu; Uysal, Gokce - 2014

Does culture affect female labor supply? In this paper, we address this question using a recent approach to measuring the effects of culture on economic outcomes, i.e. the epidemiological approach. We focus on migrants, who come from different cultures, but who share a common economic and...

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The COVID-19 pandemic and gendered division of paid and unpaid work: evidence from India

Deshpande, Ashwini - 2020

the gender gaps in paid and unpaid work through the lockdown and recovery phases. The first month of the national lockdown …

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Parental disability and teenagers' time allocation

Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2021

addition, when examining the time spent by girls and boys in two-parent households, we find that the gender of the disabled … both the gender of the teen and of the disabled parent, with teen girls likely being worse off than teen boys. Our results … suggest that differences in teenagers' time investments are a plausible mechanism for gender differences in intergenerational …

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Testing the differential impact of COVID-19 on self-employed women and men in the United Kingdom

Reuschke, Darja; Henley, Andrew; Daniel, Elizabeth; … - 2021

hours and earnings is despite family responsibilities and home-schooling, industrial gender segregation and women's greater …

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The impact of gender role norms on mothers' labor supply

Cavapozzi, Danilo; Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2021

We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … conforming gender role attitudes to their peers', with the remaining half being explained by the spillover effect of peers' labor …

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Essential work and emergency childcare: identifying gender differences in COVID-19 effects on labour demand and supply

Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Kalb, Guyonne - 2020

as others, irrespective of gender and spousal employment. Third, single-parent essential workers experience relatively …

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