Gender Roles and Human Capital Investment: The Relationship between Traditional Attitudes and Female Labour Market Performance

Vella, F.

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“…Specifically, we employ the 1985 wave of the ALS, and consider young Australian women, who reported working and were aged 16 to 25 in 1985. Our sample is constructed using the guidelines from Vella (1994), who was among the first researchers extensively working with this dataset. We follow the empirical analysis from Vella (1994) and choose U to include a continuous variable -work experience, and four categorical variables for marital status, union membership, government employment, and whether a person is born in Australia.…”

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“…We follow CDXW (2006) and Das, Newey, and Vella (2003), who rely on findings from Vella (1994), and use an index of labor market attitudes as the instrumental variable for the schooling levels. Here, we do not question the credibility of the instrument but take its validity as a maintained assumption in order to illustrate the proposed estimation method.…”

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Local Linear GMM Estimation of Functional Coefficient IV Models With an Application to Estimating the Rate of Return to Schooling

Murtazashvili

Ullah

2013

Journal of Business & Economic Statistics

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We consider the local linear GMM estimation of functional coefficient models with a mix of discrete and continuous data and in the presence of endogenous regressors. We establish the asymptotic normality of the estimator and derive the optimal instrumental variable that minimizes the asymptotic variance-covariance matrix among the class of all local linear GMM estimators. Data-dependent bandwidth sequences are also allowed for. We propose a nonparametric test for the constancy of the functional coefficients, study its asymptotic properties under the null hypothesis as well as a sequence of local alternatives and global alternatives, and propose a bootstrap version for it. Simulations are conducted to evaluate both the estimator and test. Applications to the 1985 Australian Longitudinal Survey data indicate a clear rejection of the null hypothesis of the constant rate of return to education, and that the returns to education obtained in earlier studies tend to be overestimated for all the work experience.JEL Classifications: C12, C13, C14

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Local Linear GMM Estimation of Functional Coefficient IV Models With an Application to Estimating the Rate of Return to Schooling

Murtazashvili

Ullah

2013

Journal of Business & Economic Statistics

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“…Third, the association between individuals' attitudes on gender roles and the labor force participation of women is a highly promising area of research. Based on Australian survey data, Vella (1994) compares two groups -females with "modern" attitudes and females with "traditional" attitudes -and finds that the former group is more likely to invest in human capital and participate on the labor market. Fortin (2005), using the World Values Survey across 25 countries, concludes that "anti-egalitarian" attitudes toward gender roles have the strongest negative association with female employment rates in OECD countries.…”

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Household Survey Data for Research on Well-Being and Behavior in Central Asia

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan -and of all English-language academic papers published using these datasets. We argue that Central Asia is a fascinating region for the study of comparative economics given its dual experience of transition and development. However, the region is also understudied, in part due to lack of data, and especially due to a lack of panel data. We identify knowledge gaps caused from this lack of longitudinal surveys and suggest worthwhile areas for future research. Finally, we also present the new and novel individual-level panel dataset called "Life in Kyrgyzstan". Terms of use: Documents inJEL codes: O12, I32, J22

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“…Kranton (2000, 2010) extend the standard economic models by introducing identity, or a person's sense of self, into his or her utility function. They show that identity influence labor force participation decisions, allocation of time within the household 2 The related literature shows that culture and beliefs influence women's labour supply in general, and more traditional attitudes towards gender roles contribute to the explanation of the women's lower labour market outcomes (Fortin 2005;Vella 1994). Cultural considerations appear in research by Antecol (2000), Fernández (2007), Fortin (2005) and Reimers (1985), while gender differences in time use and childcare time are documented in, for example, Jenkins and O'Leary (1997) and Kalenkoski et al (2005Kalenkoski et al ( , 2007Kalenkoski et al ( , 2009 for the United Kingdom.…”

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Children, Kitchen, Church: does ethnicity matter?

Zaiceva

Zimmermann

2013

Rev Econ Household

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Ethnic differences in the allocation of non-market time are important, as they may shed more light on the integration level of ethnic minorities and on the factors that affect both household productivity and ethnic identity. In this paper we examine the role of ethnicity and gender by analyzing differences in the time spent on a range of activities employing the 2000 UK Time Use Survey. Based on the economics of religion and identity economic models, we hypothesize that if ethnic minority women have lower opportunity costs of time and a strong 'ethnic' or 'traditionally female' identity, they will engage more in 'traditional' home activities. Double-hurdle regression results indicate that while the effect for childcare is not significant when estimated for parents only, non-white women spend significantly more time on food management and particularly religious activities than white women, with the greatest effect of the latter being for Pakistani and Bangladeshi women.

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Gender Roles and Human Capital Investment: The Relationship between Traditional Attitudes and Female Labour Market Performance

Cited by 168 publications

References 19 publications

Local Linear GMM Estimation of Functional Coefficient IV Models With an Application to Estimating the Rate of Return to Schooling

Local Linear GMM Estimation of Functional Coefficient IV Models With an Application to Estimating the Rate of Return to Schooling

Household Survey Data for Research on Well-Being and Behavior in Central Asia

Children, Kitchen, Church: does ethnicity matter?

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