Household Interaction and the Labor Supply of Married Women Changing social norms, as reflected in the interactions between spouses, are hypothesized to affect the employment rates of married women. A model is built in order to estimate this effect, in which the employment of married men and women is the outcome of an internal household game. The type of the household game is exogenously determ...

One of the central tasks that couples face in coparenting is the division of labor. In this study, we explored division of family labor among lesbian and heterosexual couples who were parenting 4 to 6 year-old children. Sixty-six families, half headed by lesbian couples and half headed by heterosexual couples, participated in the study. Measures of parental attitudes, resources, demographics, a...

e rst entity in this comparison comprises the opening lines from Reinhard Bendix's relatively early aempt to justify the comparative method within sociological research: Like the concepts of other disciplines, sociological concepts should be universally applicable. e concept 'division of labor' , for instance, refers to the fact that the labor performed in a collectivity is specialized; the con...

T paper examines the staffing, division of labor, and resulting profitability of primary care physician practices. Division of labor is viewed as a mechanism to increase the efficiency of production processes through specialization. At the same time, division of labor also introduces coordination cost as handoffs and communication needs increase. We attempt to empirically assess the net effect ...

Thomas Christiano claims that one of the fundamental challenges democracy is faced with is the appropriate division of epistemic labor between citizens and experts. In this article I try to present and analyze Christiano’s solution from the perspective of social epistemology while utilizing the concepts and tools provided by this discipline. Despite fundamentally agreeing with his position, I a...

Female agricultural contributions decline with agricultural intensification. W e formulate a n d test a theory of t h e processes of agricultural intensi fcation that explains a high proportion o f t h e variance i n female contributions t o agriculture. Five variables show replicable effects across two or more regions o f t h e world. These are n u m b e r o f d r y months , importance of dome...

The groundnut plant has the ability to survive in areas of low rainfall because it is a legume and it increases soil fertility by fixing nitrogen in the soil. The study area is known by erratic and uneven rainfall while groundnut is the main cash crop in the area. The study identified the groundnut market outlets, factor affecting groundnut market outlet choice and identifies farm level women r...

We introduce Division of Labor (DoL) from social insects to improve local optimisation of the Particle Swarm Optimiser (PSO). We compared the performance with the basic PSO, a GA and simulated annealing and found improvements around local optima. The PSO with DoL outperforms the basic PSO on most testcases and is comparable in local op-

Douglas McDonald: There are three basic ways that criminal justice agencies and drug treatment programs can interact: (1) justice agency employees conduct screening and assessment and refer patients to independ­ ent organizations for treatment; (2) a jus­ tice agency contracts with a treatment organ­ ization to screen, assess, place, and treat patients; and (3) a justice agency engages an inter...

When minimum down payments for durable purchases constrain a household’s debt, a persistent wage increase generates a liquidity shortage. This limits the income effect, so hours worked grow. This is the financial labor supply accelerator, which links labor supply to collateralized household borrowing. The mechanism generates a positive comovement of labor supply and household debt, whose streng...