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Parenthood and Risk Preferences
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2015
This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010520540
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Making Dough or Baking Dough? Spousal Housework Responsibilities in Germany, 1992-2011
Procher, Vivien; Ritter, Nolan; Vance, Colin - 2014
Drawing on German household data from 1992 to 2011, this paper analyzes how couples allocate housework against the backdrop of three questions: (1) Does an individual's contribution to household income - both in absolute and relative terms - influence his or her contribution to housework? (2) If...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332850
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Household Labor Supply and Home Services in a General-Equilibrium Model with Heterogeneous Agents
Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - 2009
We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in particular for the increase in married women's labor supply over time. We argue that this increase as well as the relative constancy of other groups' hours are optimal reactions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264757
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Deciding Who Works Where – An Analysis of the Distribution of Work within Native and Immigrant Families in Australia
Basilio, Leilanie - 2009
The paper examines whether there is an asymmetry in the distribution of market work and domestic work within families in Australia, and to what extent differences in earnings capacities of spouses can account for the division of labor. Using a Blinder-Oaxaca Tobit-type decomposition, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265784
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Whom to ask? Testing respondent effects in household surveys
Fiala, Nathan; Masselus, Lise - 2022
The common practice in household questionnaires of surveying the most knowledgeable household member can lead to inaccurate data if they have limited information. Using survey experiments in Paraguay and Uganda, we investigate whether there are discrepancies in intra-household reporting on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822343
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Who Does the Shopping? – German Time-use Evidence, 1996–2009
Procher, Vivien; Vance, Colin - 2013
Einkaufsverhaltens in Deutschland zählen der jeweilige Erwerbstatus von Mann und Frau, sowie die Anzahl der Kinder im Haushalt. Zudem … the diff erential has narrowed in recent years, particularly among couples with children. Several individual and household … characteristics are found to be signifi cant determinants of shopping behavior, whereby employment status and children emerge as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290802
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Making Dough or Baking Dough? Spousal Housework Responsibilities in Germany, 1992-2011
Procher, Vivien; Ritter, Nolan; Vance, Colin - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014
Drawing on German household data from 1992 to 2011, this paper analyzes how couples allocate housework against the backdrop of three questions: (1) Does an individual’s contribution to household income - both in absolute and relative terms - influence his or her contribution to housework? (2)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860287
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Deciding Who Works Where – An Analysis of the Distribution of Work within Native and Immigrant Families in Australia
Basilio, Leilanie - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
The paper examines whether there is an asymmetry in the distribution of market work and domestic work within families in Australia, and to what extent differences in earnings capacities of spouses can account for the division of labor. Using a Blinder-Oaxaca Tobit-type decomposition, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005003768
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Who Does the Shopping? – German Time-use Evidence, 1996–2009
Procher, Vivien; Vance, Colin - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013
differential has narrowed in recent years, particularly among couples with children. Several individual and household … characteristics are found to be significant determinants of shopping behavior, whereby employment status and children emerge as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010617567
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Household Labor Supply and Home Services in a General-Equilibrium Model with Heterogeneous Agents
Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in particular for the increase in married women’s labor supply over time.We argue that this increase as well as the relative constancy of other groups’ hours are optimal reactions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005436116