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women as evidenced by their average values for happiness, tiredness, and stress, their predicted values for the same three …
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The extent to which maternal employment is influenced by the affordability of child care is the subject of empirical ambiguity in Australian studies. We contribute to this debate by examining the relationship between maternal employment decisions and child care costs using the HILDA (Household...
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We analyse new time diary data from France to explore the relationship between economic variables and husbands’ share of housework time. Consistent with both bargaining and specialization models of the family, we find that the greater the husband’s share of labor income, the lower his share...
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earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model of the household with young children present, that this assumption is not … the number and ages of children requires us to look for other explanations, and we argue that these can be found in the …
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Using data from the HILDA (Household Income and Labour Dynamics), this paper examines the implications of child care costs on maternal employment status by distinguishing between full-time and part-time work. Our empirical approach uses an ordered probit model taking into account the endogeneity...
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satisfaction with the economic situation and self-classification into employment and non-employment categories are also relevant …
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-regressions to take the number of children reporting no housework into consid-eration. The results show that children do only a minor … work on children’s housework, while mothers having a higher education level decrease boys’ participation in housework …. Finally, the time children spend on paid work is found more positively correlated with girls’ than with boys’ contributions to …
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Positive assortative matching in terms of traits like ethnicity, race and personality has been prevalent in marital formation. One possible explanation for this is that husbands and wives in endogamous marriages have complementary skills and tastes that increase marital surplus. This paper aims...
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Using experimental techniques, we identify parental attitudes toward different-gendered children in rural Bangladesh …. We randomly selected households that had at least two school-age children (6–18 years) of different genders. Parents … toward children of a specific gender; 2) neither parent is systematically biased; 3) there are no significant differences in …
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attempt to examine how this attitude correlates with the actual decisions regarding schooling and health of their own children …
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