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Naoko Akashi-Ronquest 《Review of Economics of the Household》2009,7(1):59-81
A remarriage typically involves significant changes in a family’s financial circumstance, and these changes, combined with
the relative bargaining relationship between spouses, likely affect the well-being of the children who are part of the family.
In this paper, I use the separate-spheres model, a theoretical model that explains the determinants of bargaining power in
marriage, to analyze how a remarried couple’s bargaining relationship affects their child investment in stepfamilies. Based
on this theoretical model, I build and estimate an empirical model that investigates the determinants of parental investment.
As evidence of parental preference for biological children over stepchildren, I find that an increased wage rate of a biological
mother significantly improves her child investment when her husband is a stepfather of the child, while there is no such effect
for mothers living with the biological father of the child.
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Naoko Akashi-RonquestEmail: |
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Anna Amilon 《Review of Economics of the Household》2007,5(4):385-404
This paper views temporary parental leave (leave from work to take care of a sick child) as a household public good, produced
with time inputs of the parents as the only input. Assuming equal productivities in the production of temporary parental leave
and equal utility functions of the spouses, different household decision-making processes are applied to develop theoretical
hypotheses on sharing that are thereafter tested empirically. The empirical estimations show that the decision-making process
of the spouses can be explained by a Stackelberg model with male dominance. A stronger threat-point of the female is found
to push the intra household allocation of temporary parental leave towards greater sharing between the spouses. In addition,
an increase in the insurance ceiling will further sharing of temporary parental leave in some families, while reducing it
in others.
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Anna AmilonEmail: |
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Parental time has been identified as a key determinant in the healthy development of a child. The literature on this topic
has rapidly increased in recent years and has revealed large variations in the amount of time that parents devote to their
children, including variations over time and across social and economic subgroups of the population. This paper synthesizes
research devoted to parental time to provide a more succinct understanding of its significance and its variations. Beginning
with the measurement issues associated with parental time research and the theoretical foundations, the paper goes on to document
the social and economic determinants of parental time. It concludes with a discussion of the theoretical implications of the
findings and suggestions for future research.
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Anne H. GauthierEmail: |
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David S. Loughran Ashlesha Datar M. Rebecca Kilburn 《Review of Economics of the Household》2008,6(3):223-242
The theoretical and empirical literature on parental investment focuses on whether child-specific parental investments reinforce
or compensate for a child’s initial endowments. However, many parental investments, such as neighborhood quality and family
size and structure, are shared wholly or in part among all children in a household. The empirical results of this paper imply
that such household parental investments compensate for low endowments, as proxied by low birth weight.
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M. Rebecca KilburnEmail: |
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Plurality rule is mostly criticized from being capable of choosing an alternative considered as worst by a strict majority.
This paper considers elections in which the agenda consists of potential candidates strategically choosing whether or not
to enter the election. In this context, we examine the ability of scoring rules to fulfil the Condorcet criterion. We show
for the case of three potential candidates that Plurality rule is the only scoring rule that satisfies a version of the Condorcet
criterion in two cases: 1) when preferences are single-peaked and, 2) when preferences are single-dipped.
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Bernardo MorenoEmail: |
M. Socorro Puy (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Do Reservation Wages Really Decline? Some International Evidence on the Determinants of Reservation Wages 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Using cross-country data, we investigate the determinants of reservation wages and their course over the jobless spell. Higher
unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model, repeated observations
on the same individual provide scant evidence of declining reservation wages.
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John T. AddisonEmail: |
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The quality of time spent with children in Australian households 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Using data from the 1992 and 1997 Australian Time Use Surveys, we explore patterns in the quality of child care time spent
by parents in Australia. Drawing on existing research, we construct and evaluate four alternative ways of defining child care
quality. We estimate censored regression models of the time parents spend in high-quality child care, lower-quality child
care, and market work according to these different definitions. We find that seemingly small changes in how the quality of
time spent caring for children is conceptualized markedly affect the conclusions we draw about the associations of different
household and personal characteristics with parents’ child care time.
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Charlene M. KalenkoskiEmail: |
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We test the hypothesis that in an economic recovery, unionization negatively affects job creation. We examine state-level
job growth following two recent recessions, those with troughs in November 1982 and March 1991. In the five years following
the troughs, we assess whether variations across states in union membership and right-to-work laws affect the rate of job
growth. We find evidence that links union influence to slower job growth during an economic recovery, a finding consistent
with previous studies reporting that unions negatively affect average employment and employment growth.
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Robert KrolEmail: |
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Agreeing on more than chicken soup: Intra-household decision-making and treatment for child psychopathology 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Frederick J. Zimmerman 《Review of Economics of the Household》2006,4(3):229-252
Using a large, U.S. dataset it is shown that children are more likely to receive needed mental health specialty treatment
when women have greater decision-making power, as measured by an index of wife-favorable divorce laws and by the sex ratio
at the time of marriage. Stratified analyses show that this effect is modified by the degree of marital conflict. Marriages
characterized by high conflict conform more closely to the unified household model. The paper then presents a model of household
decision-making consistent with these results that incorporates both objective determinants of bargaining power as well as
the role of violent coercion in maintaining otherwise unsustainable equilibria. Implications for improving children’s access
to mental health treatment are offered.
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Frederick J. ZimmermanEmail: |
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Thomas J. Schofield Ross D. Parke Erica K. Castañeda Scott Coltrane 《Journal of Nonverbal Behavior》2008,32(3):171-186
Mutual gaze has been shown to be a valuable channel of nonverbal communication. To examine mutual gaze between parents and
children, 43 European American (EA) and 57 Mexican American (MA) families were coded on the occurrence of talking and gaze
during a brief discussion. MA families showed lower levels of father-to-child gaze, mother-to-son gaze, and child-to-father
gaze than EA families. MA families also showed less father–child mutual gaze, as well as less mother–child gaze for sons than
EA families. Child gaze aversion was more common in European American families. Levels of gaze, father–child mutual gaze,
and child gaze aversion all were positively correlated with acculturation. The importance of research exploring possible differences
in function and meaning of gaze across cultural groups is emphasized.
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Thomas J. SchofieldEmail: |
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What is child care? Lessons from time-use surveys of major English-speaking countries 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
This paper examines the definition and measurement of time devoted to child care in the diary-based surveys administered by
the United States, Canada, Australia, and Great Britain. Detailed analysis of the relationship between measures of care activity
and supervisory care in the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) illustrate the larger conceptual issues at stake.
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Jayoung YoonEmail: |
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Pamela Price 《Qualitative sociology》2006,29(3):301-316
The article explores political meanings in the context of recent economic and political changes in a village in south India.
Cultural constructions of political relations emerged in conversations between the author and village informants in Andhra
Pradesh. Informants perceived decline in the power and authority of former village lords and talked about the establishment
of authority in the new setting. In processes of democratization which had taken place, showing and receiving honor and respect
continued as political and social preoccupations. However, deserving honor and respect has become less a statement about political
superiority and domination and more about individual moral qualities.
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Pamela PriceEmail: |
13.
Alan J. Levy 《Clinical Social Work Journal》2008,36(3):281-291
This paper critically appraises the therapeutic action of play in psychodynamic child therapy and identifies obstacles to
utilizing play therapeutically with children. An examination of the functions of action and verbal means of communication
as well as their roles in shaping therapeutic relationships in treating children is provided in light of recent theoretical
advances. The significance of engaging children directly through play and for redressing the balance between action and verbalization
in child therapy is discussed.
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Alan J. LevyEmail: |
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Social movement scholars have suggested that opportunity structures are not objective features of the world but must be constructed by social forces, including social movements. Here, we attempt to analyze how Palestinians living in the occupied territories constructed political opportunity during the run-up to the 1987 first Intifada. We analyze how the changing Israeli political opportunity structure affected Palestinians’ framing of the structural conditions they faced. In particular, we examine (1) how the consolidating Palestinian movement within the occupied territories built the capacity for a shared, collective framing of events, and (2) how the movement adapted a strategy based on its understanding of the opportunity presented by divisions in Israeli society concerning the occupation. Based on the analysis, we offer several insights into the Intifada's dynamics and trajectories.
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Eitan Y. AlimiEmail: |
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Financial Issues Associated with Having a Child with Autism 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
Data from the Family Experiences with Autism Survey are used to identify factors associated with financial problems in families
that have a child with autism. Likelihood of financial problems was positively associated with use of medical interventions,
having unreimbursed medical or therapy expenses, and having relatively lower income. Use of speech and language therapy was
negatively associated with likelihood of financial problems. Many survey respondents forfeited future financial security and
even experienced bankruptcy to provide needed therapy for a child with autism. Specific ways that financial advisors can help
families that have a child with autism are outlined.
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Dana Lee BakerEmail: |
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This article investigates parental investments in single-child households. It shows that son preference triggers more parental
investments in children and its effects are stronger on investments in sons. A rise in the sex ratio creates a marriage market
squeeze. It, however, has ambiguous effects on investments in children, which depends on how strong these investments are
as measures for influencing children’s marriage probability. A rise in the sex ratio may particularly raise investments in
daughters and lower investments in sons, or vice versa, or it may induce more or less parental investments in both sons and
daughters. If the sex ratio and preference of sons are correlated, then the effect of the preference for sons on investments
in children is generally ambiguous. If the sex ratio is influenced by parental health investments, then son preference induces
a higher sex ratio. However, the higher sex ratio has ambiguous effects on the subsequent parental investments before a child’s
marriage. We also show that parental preference of child services over a child’s marital status may explain parental investments.
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Junsen ZhangEmail: |
17.
Lyn Craig 《Journal of Family and Economic Issues》2007,28(1):69-87
Time use studies find that employed mothers reduce their parental childcare time by much less than an hour for every hour
they spend in market work. This paper uses data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Time Use Survey 1997 (4,059 randomly selected households) to investigate how employed mothers manage to avoid a one-for-one trade-off between
work and childcare. It compares the time allocation of employed fathers, employed mothers and non-employed mothers and finds
that parents use non-parental childcare to reschedule as well as to replace their own childcare, that employed mothers reschedule
activities from weekdays to weekends or to earlier or later in the day, and spend less time than other mothers in housework,
childfree leisure and personal care.
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Lyn CraigEmail: |
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Rosanne Rutten 《Qualitative sociology》2006,29(3):353-372
Shame – a feeling of social inadequacy and (the anticipation of) public humiliation – may inhibit worker activism. This article
discusses the role of shame, as an emotion and a behavioral disposition, in face-to-face confrontations between workers and
employers, embedded in an authority structure marked by patron-clientage and personal dependency. It explores how shame may
function as an obstacle to face-to-face confrontations and claim-making, and how workers and leftwing activists try to overcome
this hurdle.
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Rosanne RuttenEmail: |
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Close to Home: A Simultaneous Equations Model of the Relationship Between Child Care Accessibility and Female Labor Force Participation 总被引:3,自引:2,他引:1
Rising rates of maternal employment among current and former welfare recipients have increased the use of non-parental child
care. Little empirical work examines the relationship between women’s labor supply and the geographic supply of child care.
We combine census data with child care provider information for the state of Maryland to explore the relationship between
female labor supply and the geographic supply of child care. OLS and 3-SLS equations are estimated, and the findings are consistent
across each estimator: Women’s labor supply is sensitive to the geographic supply of child care and vice versa. These results
are important because states now spend significant money on quality improvement initiatives, many of which increase child
care supply in low-income neighborhoods.
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Burt S. BarnowEmail: |
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This paper examines the interactions between spouses’ decisions to join the labor force. We use the asymptotic least squares
method in order to estimate a system of equations with limited dependent variables. We find that when spouse’s decision-making
is modeled as simultaneous, this affects primarily the man’s participation equation who appears to be positively influenced
by whether the woman works or not, by the number of children and by the birth of a child. The woman’s decision to participate
is not affected by whether the man participates or not and depends negatively of the number of children and the birth of a
child. This implies that there is a female leadership in decisions to participate in the labor market and that the added-worker
effect should be reinterpreted as a function of demography rather than unemployment.
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Véronique Simonnet (Corresponding author)Email: |