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38 IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17151

Gender Gaps in Time Use: Pan-European Evidence from School Closures during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Benjamin Elsner, Manvi Jindal, Massimiliano Mascherini, Sanna Nivakoski

forthcoming in: Economic and Social Review

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16182

Spouses as Home Health Workers and Cooks: Insights for Applied Research

Shoshana Grossbard

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15681

Multitasking

Anzelika Zaiceva

published in: K.F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, Cham, 2023, 1-29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15118

Who Is Doing the Chores and Childcare in Dual-Earner Couples during the COVID-19 Era of Working from Home?

Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, Victoria Vernon

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 21 (2), 519–565

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13340

Do Immigrants Pay a Price When Marrying Natives? Lessons from the US Time Use Survey

Shoshana Grossbard, Victoria Vernon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12948

Gender, Information and the Efficiency of Household Production Decisions: An Experiment in Rural Togo

Marie Christine Apedo-Amah, Habiba Djebbari, Roberta Ziparo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11698

How Has the Two-Day Weekend Policy Affected Labour Supply and Household Work in China?

Tony Fang, Carl Lin, Xueli Tang

published as 'Where did the time go? The effects of China's two-day weekend policy on labor supply, household work, and wage' in: China Economic Review, 2024, 83, 102107.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10362

Family Economics Writ Large

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Guillaume Vandenbroucke

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2017, 55, 1346-1434.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9607

Capital Income Taxation and Household Production

Patricia Apps, Ray Rees

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8831

Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Georgi Kocharkov, Cezar Santos

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2016, 8 (1), 1-41.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8676

Gender Bias in Tax Systems Based on Household Income

Yuri Andrienko, Patricia Apps, Ray Rees

published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 117/118, 141-155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8424

Introduction to A Theory of the Allocation of Time by Gary Becker

James J. Heckman

published in: Economic Journal, 2015,125 (583), 403–409

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7937

Common Law Marriage and Male/Female Convergence in Labor Supply and Time Use

Shoshana Grossbard, Victoria Vernon

published in: Research in Labor Economics (Gender Convergence in the Labor Market), 2015, 41,43-175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7281

Intrahousehold Bargaining and the Demand for Consumer Durables in Brazil

Ana Claudia Polato e Fava, Mary P. Arends-Kuenning

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6823

Optimal Taxation, Child Care and Models of the Household

Patricia Apps, Ray Rees

published as 'Optimal family taxation and income inequality' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2018, 25, 1093–1128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6763

Measuring the Relative Productivity of Multitasking to Sole-tasking in Household Production: New Experimental Evidence

Gigi Foster, Charlene M. Kalenkoski

published in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (18), 1847-1862

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6700

A Gift of Time

Daiji Kawaguchi, Jungmin Lee, Daniel S. Hamermesh

published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 205-216

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6199

Aggregate Impacts of a Gift of Time

Jungmin Lee, Daiji Kawaguchi, Daniel S. Hamermesh

published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102(3), 612-616

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5190

Married with Children: A Collective Labor Supply Model with Detailed Time Use and Intrahousehold Expenditure Information

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Frederic Vermeulen

published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (17), 3377-3405

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4944

On the Importance of Household Production in Collective Models: Evidence from U.S. Data

Olivier Donni, Eleonora Matteazzi

published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 105/106, 99-126

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4845

The Multitasking of Household Production

Charlene M. Kalenkoski, Gigi Foster

published in: C. Kalenkoski and G. Foster (eds): The Economics of Multitasking, Palgrave MacMillan, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4378

Grazing, Goods and Girth: Determinants and Effects

Daniel S. Hamermesh

published as "Incentives, time use and BMI: The roles of eating, grazing and goods" in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 8 (1), 2-15

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4377

Endogeneous Household Interaction

Daniela Del Boca, Christopher Flinn

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 166 (1), 49-65

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4048

How Does Household Production Affect Measured Income Inequality?

Harley Frazis, Jay Stewart

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (1), 3-22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3955

Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production

Michael C. Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh

published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 107 (2), 131-133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3313

Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner

published in: Acemoglu, D. et al. (eds.): NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2008, NBER, Cambridge, MA , 2009, 231-276

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3109

Family Bargaining and Taxes: A Prolegomenon to the Analysis of Joint Taxation

Robert Pollak

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (2), 216-244

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2910

The Taxation of Couples

Patricia Apps, Ray Rees

published as "Optimal Taxation and Tax Reform for Two-Earner Households" in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (2), 283-304

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2705

Total Work, Gender and Social Norms

Michael C. Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Philippe Weil

published as 'Total Work and Gender: Facts and Possible Explanations' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (1), 239-261

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2271

Educational Homogamy: Preferences or Opportunities?

Helena Skyt Nielsen, Michael Svarer

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(4), 1066-86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2270

The Distribution of Total Work in the EU and US

Michael C. Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Philippe Weil

published in: Tito Boeri, Michael Burda, Francis Kramarz (eds.), Working Hours and Job Sharing in the EU and USA: Are Americans Crazy? Are Europeans Lazy? Oxford Univ. Press, 2008

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2030

The Time and Timing Costs of Market Work, and their Implications for Retirement

Daniel S. Hamermesh

published as 'A Structural Model of the Fixed Time Costs of Market Work' (with Stephen G. Donald) in: Economics Letters, 2009, 104 (3), 125-128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1815

Stressed Out on Four Continents: Time Crunch or Yuppie Kvetch?

Daniel S. Hamermesh, Jungmin Lee

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 89 (2), 374-383

IZA Discussion Paper No. 859

Loafing or Learning? The Demand for Informal Education

René Fahr

published in: European Economic Review, 2005, 49 (1), 75-98 and in: D. Hamermesh and G. Pfann (eds.). The Economics of Time Use, Elsevier, 2005