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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"female labor supply"”.
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Child care and female labor supply--the influence of quality and price on mothers' work decisions
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1991.
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Effects of In-Kind transfers on female labor supply: evidence from the food supply program comedores comunitarios
… podrían tener efectos positivos sobre la oferta laboral. En este trabajo utilizamos el programa de nutrición de la ciudad de Bogotá, Comedores Comunitarios, para esclarecer dicho punto. El programa otorga un almuerzo diario a las personas pobres que son vecinas de los comedores. Utilizando la …
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Gender Impacts of Molecular-Assisted Breeding: The Case of Insect and Disease Resistant Cassava in Nigeria
… statistical analysis reveals that total female labor is higher than total male in cassava production, processing and marketing. Women spend more labor days than males for planting, weeding, harvesting, marketing and processing. The total female family labor is higher for adopters of new …
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Essays on the Macroeconomics of Labor Markets
… essays studying macroeconomics questions about labor markets. The research in this document is separated into chapters that study distinct features of aggregate labor market outcomes. The first essay documents the change in behavior of fertility rate at business cycle frequencies in the United …
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Essays using military-induced variation to study social interactions, human capital development, and labor markets
… aspects of human capital production and the U.S. labor market. The first two chapters study the effects of social interactions on human capital development at the United States Military Academy where social groups are randomly assigned. Chapter 1 highlights the empirical difficulties associated …
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Three Papers in Labor Mobility and Human Capital Accumulation
"This dissertation addresses the determinants of labor mobility, its impact in human capital accumulation, and the role played by human capital accumulation in the income distribution. Each topic is analyzed using different case studies: the first one is answered using personnel records from a …
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High-dimensional econometrics and model selection
… examples and an empirical application to female labor supply using data from the 1980 U.S. Census illustrate the performance of our methods in finite samples.
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Three Essays on Labor Supply in China
… studying the determination and evolution of labor supply in China. The analysis especially focuses on the labor market behavior of the wage workers with urban registration (Hukou). The first chapter outlines the dissertation by briefly discussing the motivations, methods, and main findings in …
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The Differential Impact of Welfare Reform in Non-metropolitan and Metropolitan Areas of Virginia
… however, about the ability of non-metropolitan labor markets to absorb female household heads currently on welfare. This thesis addresses potential differences in the impact of welfare reform measures in non-metropolitan and metropolitan labor markets by estimating wage and reservation wage …
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Three essays on the production and investment decisions of households living in rural India
… services, such as education, health, water supply and sanitation, has become the central focus of international development assistance. However, the provision of basic social services is not necessarily sufficient to lead to an accumulation of human and productive capital, which would allow …