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Sex-ratios and work in Latin American households : evidence from Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Chile
Campaña, Juan Carlos; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 30 (2021), pp. 1-25
We analyze the relationship between sex-ratios in the region of residence, and the time devoted to paid and unpaid work by couples in Mexico (2002, 2009, 2014), Peru (2010), Ecuador (2012), Colombia (2012, 2017) and Chile (2015). We find that sex-ratios are negatively related to the time devoted...
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Intrahousehold welfare
Fafchamps, Marcel - 2012
Using an unusually comprehensive dataset from rural Ethiopia, we look for systematic relationships between bargaining power and various dimensions of intrahousehold welfare. Our results confrm some of the results previously found in the literature. We find that the relative nutrition of spouses...
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Gender norms and intra-household allocation of labor in Mozambique : a CGE application to household economics
Arora, Diksha; Rada, Codrina - 2017
We model intra-household dynamics in two rural provinces of Mozambique through the lens of computable general … equilibrium (CGE) methods. The main features of the model are: 1) a household social accounting matrix that captures allocation of … labor and resources, and transfers among household members; 2) the explicit use of social norms in labor allocation across …
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Gender differences in time poverty in rural Mozambique
Arora, Diksha - 2014
household survey in Mozambique is used for this analysis. The main findings suggest that women's labor allocation to economic … activities is comparable to that of men. Household chores and care work are women's responsibility, which they perform with …
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The U.S. tax-transfer system and low-income households : savings, labor supply, and household formation
Ortigueira, Salvador; Siassi, Nawid - 2020
Eligibility and benefits for anti-poverty income transfers in the U.S. are based on both the means and the household …
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The US tax-transfer system and low-income households : savings, labor supply, and household formation
Ortigueira, Salvador; Siassi, Nawid - In: Review of economic dynamics 44 (2022), pp. 184-210
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(Re)investigation of rural women’s labour supply in India : the impact of household poverty status : a panel data analysis
Sebastian, Nancy - In: Margin: the journal of applied economic research 13 (2019) 4, pp. 436-469
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Dowries, resource allocation, and poverty
Calvi, Rossella; Keskar, Ajinkya - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 192 (2021), pp. 268-303
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Household labor supply and social protection : evidence from Pakistan's BISP Cash Transfer Program
Ambler, Kate; De Brauw, Alan - 2019
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Individual and household in-work poverty in Europe : understanding the role of labor market characteristics
Filandri, Marianna; Struffolino, Emanuela - 2018
refers to workers whose salary is below 60% of the median, while the household-level definition refers to individuals whose … household income is below 60% of the median. Microdata from the 2014 EU-SILC survey and macrodata on involuntary part … show a positive relationship between involuntary part-time work and in-work poverty according to the household definition …
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