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Changing patterns of son preference and fertility in Pakistan

Javed, Muhammad Rashid; Mughal, Mazhar - 2021

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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Gender division of household labor : how does culture operate?

Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2019

In this paper, we examine whether culture plays a role in the gender division of household labor. To explore this issue, we use data on early-arrival first and second generation immigrants living in the United States. Since all these individuals have grown up under the same laws, institutions,...

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Rules, preferences and evolutionfrom the family angle

Cigno, Alessandro - 2021

This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution ofcultural traits in general and preferences in particular, and theemergence and persistence of rules or norms, from a family per-spective. In models where each person is e§ectively the clone ofan existing one (either a parent or anyone...

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Understanding inequality within households

Almås, Ingvild; Ringdal, Charlotte; Sjursen, Ingrid Hoem - 2021

consumption leads to underestimation of inequalities and miss-classification of poverty. In comparison, structural models seem to …

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The motherhood penalty in China : having a child increases gender inequality in the labor market

Zhang, Mingxue; Hou, Lingling; Wang, Yue - 2022

Using a comprehensive individual panel dataset in China and an event study method, we examined the effects of having a child on gender inequality from the perspectives of labor market outcomes and its mechanisms. Results show that becoming a mother implies a sharp decline in labor earnings,...

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Female early marriage and son preference in Pakistan

Mughal, Mazhar; Javed, Muhammad Rashid; Lorey, Thierry - 2023

In this study, we employ pooled data from four rounds of Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS) to examine whether, and to what extent, does the incidence of early marriage shape the married women's perspectives on gender preference associated with reproduction. We employ a number of...

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Transitioning towards more equality? : wealth gender differences and the changing role of explanatory factors over time

Sierminska, Eva; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Grabka, Markus M. - 2018

We investigate the explanatory factors that have contributed to changing wealth levels and the gender wealth gap in Germany over the period 2002-2012. In particular, we analyze the role of changes in labor supply, permanent income, portfolio composition, and marital status on wealth...

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What accounts for the rising share of women in the top 1 %?

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2020

The share of women in the top 1% of the UK's income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in several other countries). Our first contribution is to account for this secular change using regressions of the probability of being in the top 1%, fitted separately for men and...

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Exchange rate, remittances and expenditure of foreign-born households : evidence from Australia

Hasan, Syed; Ratna, Nazmun; Shakur, Shamim - 2019

over the same time, we argue that falling AU$ induces HFBMs to substitute for consumption in the home country with that in …

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A bigger house at the cost of an empty fridge? : the effect of households' indebtedness on their consumption : micro-evidence using Belgian HFCS data

Du Caju, Philip; Périlleux, Guillaume; Rycx, François; … - 2021

This paper investigates the potentially non-linear relation between households' indebtedness and their consumption … between 2010 and 2014 in Belgium, using panel data from the two waves of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey. Unlike … previous studies, we find a negative effect of households' indebtedness on their consumption, even in the absence of negative …

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