Family, labour and fertility

Family, labour and fertility

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Partners’ Risk Perception and Household Portfolio Allocation

Francesco Maura

Key points:

  1. Classical models approximate household’s preferences with husbands (or financial decision-makers) preference in financial choices.

  2. However, households make decisions as a group, bargaining about individual preferences and then deciding the optimal outcome.

  3. I show that the preferences of all household decision-makers matter in the determination of household decisions, including that of wives.

  4. I also show that approximating household members’ bargaining power using only relative income leads to a potential underestimation of the role of women in portfolio allocation.

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Generative AI and Labor Market Discrimination

Kenza Elass

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What do women want in a job? Gender-biased preferences and the reservation wage gap

Kenza Elass

Key points:

  1. This paper uses French administrative data from the French Unemployment Services providing information on job search behaviour to assess which kind of occupations men and women apply for and the gap in their reservation wages.

  2. There are widespread gender differences in the occupation characteristics targeted by job seekers, both in terms of content and amenities of the desired occupation.

  3. Using a change in childcare benefits for single parents in a causal analysis, results show that a change in household constraints changes the job search behaviour of women.

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Family culture and childcare: Individual Preferences and Politicians’ Legislative Behavior

Paola Profeta with F. Carta and L. de Masi

Key points:

  1. Studies the role of family organization in shaping public provision of childcare

  2. US citizens with origins in countries characterized by egalitarian inheritance rules prefer a large childcare system, while those coming from large and cohabiting families rely less on the government and as a provider for external childcare

  3. Representatives of US districts where these backgrounds are dominant are respectively more and less prone to vote for childcare interventions, independently of their own background

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Population ageing and the gender gap

Paola Profeta, D. Bloom, A.Sousa Poza and U. Sunde (eds)

Routledge Handbook on the Economics of Ageing