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Time for Children, a Study of Parents' Time Allocation

Hallberg, Daniel; Klevmarken, Anders - 2001

Process benefit scores indicates that time with own children is preferred before all other activities, closely followed by market work. The trade-off between parents' time with their own kids and market work, and its dependence on out-of-home day-care is analyzed in a simultaneous equation...

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Synchronous Leisure, Jointness and Household Labor Supply

Hallberg, Daniel - 2002

This paper examines the synchronous leisure of spouses and the extent to which spouses spend time together. The time budget data set used in this paper allows for a distinction between simultaneous time-use of spouses and the actual time that spouses meet. A comparison between couples and...

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Fertility, Child Work and Schooling Consequences of Family Planning Programs: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Bangladesh

Sinha, Nistha - 2003

experiments in the area of family planning. This paper evaluates an ongoing family planning program experiment in rural Bangladesh …. The paper estimates the effect of mothers' program exposure on fertility and children's time allocation. The results show … that while the program was effective in reducing fertility, it had no significant impact on children's school enrollment …

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Identifying the effect of temporal work flexibility on parental time with children

Scheffel, Juliane - 2011

family and work. By exploiting the particularity of the East German labor market, I identify the causal effect of temporal …

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The vertical transmission of time use choices

Volland, Benjamin - 2012

The present paper analyzes intergenerational correlations in leisure time use between parents and their adult children in order to gain an understanding of the importance of genetics and early childhood learning mechanisms in preference formation. Data from the British Household Panel Survey...

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Labor supply heterogeneity and demand for child care of mothers with young children

Apps, Patricia; Kabatek, Jan; Rees, Ray; van Soest, Arthur - 2012

This paper introduces a static structural model of hours of market labor supply, time spent on child care and other domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with pre-school age children. The father's behavior is taken as given. The main goal is to analyze the...

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Household models: an historical perspective

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2007

the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to …

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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women

Furtado, Delia - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be … affected by the difficulty of combining work and family. New research suggests immigration lowers the cost of household …

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Retirement, Intergenerational Time Transfers, and Fertility

Eibich, Peter; Siedler, Thomas - 2020

transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on adult … children's fertility. We use representative panel data from Germany to link observations on parents and adult children. We … retirement affects only the timing of adult children's fertility, without having an effect on total fertility. …

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Retirement, intergenerational time transfers, and fertility

Eibich, Peter; Siedler, Thomas - 2020

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