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Togetherness in the Household

Social Science Research Network, 2023
Spending time with a spouse is a major gain from marriage. We extend the classical collective model of the household to allow for togetherness between spouses. Togetherness takes the form of joint leisure and joint care for children.
Cosaert Sam   +2 more
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Detecting Mother-Father Differences in Spending on Children: A New Approach Using Willingness-to-Pay Elicitation

American Economic Review: Insights, 2023
This paper tests whether mothers and fathers differ in their spending on daughters relative to sons by comparing their willingness to pay (WTP) for specific goods for their children.
Rebecca Dizon-Ross, S. Jayachandran
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A Review of the Economics of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

Journal of Economic Literature
This article reviews the growing literature on the economics of sexual orientation and gender identity, a field that did not exist thirty years ago. We summarize, evaluate, and synthesize the literature on LGBTQ+ peoples’ economic lives and livelihoods ...
M. Badgett   +3 more
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A Review of Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti’s Love, Money and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids

Journal of Economic Literature, 2021
As Generation X’s (born in the 1960s and 1970s) child bearing years draw to a close, its parenting practices are due for assessment, the topic of the book under review.
L. Edlund
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Age at Marriage and Women' s Labor Market Outcomes in India

Social Science Research Network
We examine the relationship between women’s age at marriage and their labor market outcomes using nationally representative household data from India.
G. Dhamija, Punarjit Roychowdhury
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Not Playing Favorites: Parents and the Value of Equal Opportunity†

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
We conduct two experiments to identify the value parents place on equality of opportunity when investing in children. The experiments exogenously vary short-run returns to educational investments to identify the weight placed on equalizing “opportunity” (
James Berry   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Family Health Behaviors

The American Economic Review, 2017
We study how health behaviors are shaped through family spillovers. We leverage administrative data to identify the effects of health shocks on family members’ consumption of preventive care and health-related behaviors, constructing counterfactuals for ...
Itzik Fadlon, T. Nielsen
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Health Effects of Cousin Marriage: Evidence from US Genealogical Records

American Economic Review: Insights
Cousin marriage rates are high in many countries today. While previous studies have documented increased risks of infant and child mortality, we provide the first estimate of the effect of such marriages on life expectancy throughout adulthood.
S. Hwang, Deaglan Jakob, Munir Squires
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Singles, Couples, and Their Labor Supply: Long-Run Trends and Short-Run Fluctuations

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
Women's increased involvement in the economy has been an important change in labor markets during the past century. I show that a macroeconomic model taking into account gender and household composition in an otherwise parsimonious off-the-shelf setting ...
Jonna Olsson
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Measuring the Contribution of Unpaid Female Labour in National Income of India

Studies in Microeconomics
Research papers on female labour force participation (FLFP) are neither rare nor uncommon. However, papers measuring unpaid female labour are not many. This paper estimates the increase in gross domestic product (GDP) due to an increase in FLFP using two
Archita Mukherjee
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