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Title: The Galor-Weil gender-gap model revisited: from home to market

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Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: This paper develops an overlapping generations model that incorporates twosector (market and non-market) production, gender heterogeneity, and fertility choice. We extend the gender-gap model of Galor and Weil (Am Econ Rev 86(3):374387, 1996) by adding a third use of time, non-market work, into household time allocation. Our model can explain the joint evolution of production structure, household time allocation, and fertility broadly observed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Western world as part of a single process of economic development: (i) production shifted out of households and into the market, (ii) there was first an increase in the supply of male labor to the market, followed by an increase in the female labor supply; married-female participation in paid work outside the home dramatically increased in the latter half of the twentieth century, and (iii) there has been a two-century long secular decline in fertility, interrupted by a temporary rise in the mid-twentieth century (a baby boom). We also provide a quantitative analysis and examine how well our model replicates the patterns observed in U.S. data.

Url: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10887-010-9058-6

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Authors: Yasui, Daishin; Kimura, Masako

Periodical (Full): Journal of Economic Growth

Issue: 4

Volume: 15

Pages: 323-351

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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