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Cash Transfers for Child Development : Experimental Evidence from India

Weaver, Jeffrey; Sukhtankar, Sandip; Niehaus, Paul; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Despite significant economic growth, child development outcomes in India remain poor. Using a large-scale experiment in which randomly-selected mothers receive cash transfers for the first two years of their child's life, we examine the relationship between income and child development in the...

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Guaranteed Employment in Rural India : Intra-Household Labor and Resource Allocation Consequences

García, Jorge Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

I investigate the intra-household labor and resource allocation consequences of an employment guarantee targeting rural households in India. The guarantee insures household earnings, replacing women as added workers and shutting down a motive for saving. Despite sizable program-job take-up, the...

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Growth Elasticities of Poverty Reduction

Ravallion, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Thirty years ago, Nanak Kakwani provided elegant nonparametric formulae for the point elasticities of measures of poverty with respect to changes in the mean of the distribution of income, thus analytically linking the poverty measures to key macroeconomic aggregates. Numerous insights are found...

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Winning the Bread and Baking it Too : Gendered Frictions in the Allocation of Home Production

Hancock, Kyle; Lafortune, Jeanne; Low, Corinne - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

not appear to be "gender neutral" even after accounting for average earnings differences. One possible explanation would …

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Patterns of Time Use Among Older People

Ferranna, Maddalena; Sevilla, J. P.; Zucker, Leo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

younger people; between developed and developing countries; and by other demographic characteristics such as gender, marital …

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Human Capital Impacts of In Utero Exposure to War Conflict in Afghanistan

Aslim, Erkmen Giray; Najam, Rafiuddin; Tekin, Erdal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

. Our findings reveal significant gender disparities, with girls exposed in utero demonstrating substantially worse …

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The Evolution of Work from Home

Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Full days worked at home account for 28 percent of paid workdays among Americans 20-64 years old, as of mid 2023, according to the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes. That's about four times the 2019 rate and ten times the rate in the mid-1990s that we estimate in time-use data. We...

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Education Gradients in Parental Time Investment and Subjective Well-being

Kalil, Ariel; Mayer, Susan E.; Delgado, William; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

College-educated mothers spend substantially more time in intensive childcare than less educated mothers despite their higher opportunity cost of time and working more hours. Using data from the 2010-2013 and 2021 waves of the Well-being Module of the American Time Use Survey, we investigate...

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Divorce and Property Division Laws Shape Human Capital Investment

Blair, Peter Q.; Neilson, Elijah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In theory, unilateral divorce laws alter the private incentive to invest in human capital by permitting either spouse to initiate the division of the marital assets. Using several causal research designs we show that both men and women are less likely to attain a bachelor's degree in states with...

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The Child Penalty Atlas

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

different regions of the world. The fraction of gender inequality explained by child penalties varies systematically with … minuscule fraction of gender inequality. But as economies develop -- incomes rise and the labor market transitions from … gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in …

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