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important in explaining a female advantage in most cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Moreover, gender disparity in educational … gaps in non-cognitive skills. As children age, gender differences in time allocation play an increasing role in explaining … gender gaps in both cognitive and non-cognitive skills. …
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Gender inequality is much more than wage gaps. Indeed, one interesting case is how individuals allocate time among … different activities such as paid work, unpaid work and domestic work. This paper aims to quantify gender inequality in the time … use in unpaid care and home activities and to investigate the main drivers of gender gaps in Colombia using the National …
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impact of sleeping longer on cognitive skills. …
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This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
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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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This chapter reviews economic studies on multitasking in household production. Whereas multitasking or task juggling in the workplace has been analyzed more widely, economic literature on multitasking in a household is relatively scarce. The chapter first provides relevant measures of such...
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We examine changes in the gender gap in working from home (WFH) in response to the unanticipated first wave of the … COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the American Time Use Survey, we find a non-negligible widening of the gender gap with … WFH being more prevalent among women than among men. Respondents' job traits played a significant role in the gender gap …
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This study provides a thorough examination of the evolving gender gap in time allocated to housework in the aftermath … minutes, representing 57% of the pre-pandemic gender gap related to housework time. Our research demonstrates an increase in …-aged children making significant strides in closing the gender gap. Further results show that parents maintained a similar share of …
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We use several datasets to study whether son preference prevails in the human capital investment among Chinese rural-urban migrant households. We find that son preference exists among the rural migrants’ households and that it caused lower probabilities relative to that of their boy...
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This study explores the allocation of time, particularly to sleep, among children and adolescents in response to daily solar cycles. Utilizing a dataset of over 50,000 time-use diaries from two Australian cohorts spanning 16 years and employing an individual fixed effects estimator, we uncover a...
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