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Women's labour force participation and the transition to the male‐breadwinner family, 1790‐1865
Sara Horrell,Jane Humphries +1 more
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This article is published in The Economic History Review.The article was published on 1995-02-01. It has received 239 citations till now.read more
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Child Labor: Cause, Consequence, and Cure, with Remarks on International Labor Standards
TL;DR: Basu et al. as mentioned in this paper argue that, in some economies, the market for labor may exhibit multiple equilibria, with one equilibrium having low adult wage and a high incidence of child labor and another equilibrium exhibiting high adult wage, and no child labor.
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Child labor : cause, consequence, and cure, with remarks on International Labor Standards
TL;DR: In this paper, an analytical survey of the literature on child labor is provided keeping in mind that this is an area where the primary reason for theorizing is ultimately to influence policy.
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Three centuries of inequality in britain and america
TL;DR: The first half of this century equalized pre-fisc incomes more in Britain than in America, and from the 1970s to the 1990s inequality rose in both countries, reversing some of the previous equalization.
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The industrious revolution: consumer behavior and the household economy, 1650 to the present
TL;DR: A second Industrious Revolution? Appendix I.1. The transformation of consumer desire in the long eighteenth century 2. The origins of the Industrious revolution 3. The Industrial Revolution: the supply of labor 4. The industrial revolution: consumer demand 5. The breadwinner-homemaker household 6.
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Sample Selection Bias as a Specification Error
TL;DR: In this article, the bias that results from using non-randomly selected samples to estimate behavioral relationships as an ordinary specification error or "omitted variables" bias is discussed, and the asymptotic distribution of the estimator is derived.
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Limited-Dependent and Qualitative Variables in Econometrics
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the use of truncated distributions in the context of unions and wages, and some results on truncated distribution Bibliography Index and references therein.
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The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union
TL;DR: The Marriage of Marxism and Feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: marxism and feminism are one, and that one is MARXism.
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Sample Selection Bias As a Specification Error (with an Application to the Estimation of Labor Supply Functions)
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a simple characterization of the sample selection bias problem that is also applicable to the conceptually distinct econometric problems that arise from truncated samples and from models with limited dependent variables.