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This study estimates random effects and difference-in-difference-in-differences models to examine the initial impacts of COVID-19 on the employment and hours of unincorporated self-employed workers using monthly panel data from the Current Population Survey. For these workers, effects were...
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This paper analyzes how intrahousehold bargaining power impacts labor supply, for seventeen European countries. To that end, we estimate a collective model using the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions for the period 2004-2019, and we study the validity of several potential...
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This paper presents a new model of the household that is able to explain a variety of consumption patterns that … household. Empirically, the paper revisits the Deaton-Paxson paradox exploiting household splits in longitudinal data and …
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To describe and understand the economic inequality in a given so- ciety, it is necessary to understand intra-household … paper gives an overview of within-household distributions in different settings, both between the adults and also between … often, but not always, disfavor women and children. The paper also discusses the importance of intra-household allocations …
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and spent even more time on household production. When both parents worked from home compared to both worked on … did more household production, suggesting they shared the increased work burden resulting from the pandemic more equally … classrooms, increasing the demand for household-provided childcare. Using time diaries from American Time Use Survey (ATUS) and …
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allocates more time to paid work and less time to household production. The effect is evident for the daughters-in-law who co … household production. Heterogeneity in results is observed by socio-religious groups and by the extent of patriarchy in the …-reside with mothers-in-law who have completed at least secondary education. The mother-in-law's time allocated to household …
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towards greater equality in the allocation of household tasks among couples, extending beyond the initial stages of COVID-19 … mechanism for changing gender roles. We show a more significant closure of the gender gap in household labor in areas with more …
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Worldwide, 1.6 million girls are "missing" at birth every year. One policy tool to improve the sex ratio is a conditional cash transfer that pays parents to invest in daughters, but existing evidence on their effectiveness is sparse. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we evaluate the...
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reasons for the existence of child labor have been proposed with the goal of designing appropriate solutions. While household …
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Using data from two representative Demographic and Health Surveys, we examine the change in son preference over the past three decades and its effects on Pakistani women's fertility. We analyse a number of indicators and employ different empirical methods to come up with strong and persistent...
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