Out of the wallet and into the purse: Using micro data to test income pooling

J Ward-Batts - Journal of human resources, 2008 - jhr.uwpress.org
This paper uses an exogenous change in the intrahousehold distribution of income,
provided by a change in United Kingdom Family Allowance policy to test the income-pooling …

Saving for retirement: Household bargaining and household net worth

SJ Lundberg, J Ward-Batts - … Robert Day School of Economics and …, 2000 - papers.ssrn.com
Traditional economic models treat the household as a single individual, and do not allow for
separate preferences of and possible conflicts of interest between husbands and wives. …

[PDF][PDF] Time allocation of parents and investments in sons and daughters

S Lundberg, SW Pabilonia, J Ward-Batts - Unpublished paper, 2007 - researchgate.net
Several studies of parental time allocation have found that fathers spend more time with
sons than daughters, while mothers devote roughly equal amounts of time to boys and girls …

The impact of separate taxation on the intra-household allocation of assets: evidence from the UK

M Stephens Jr, J Ward-Batts - Journal of Public Economics, 2004 - Elsevier
The income tax system in the United Kingdom moved from joint to independent taxation of
husbands’ and wives’ income in 1990. One interesting aspect of independent taxation is the …

The effect of child gender on parents' labor supply: An examination of natives, immigrants, and their children

SW Pabilonia, J Ward-Batts - American Economic Review, 2007 - pubs.aeaweb.org
By Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia and Jennifer Ward-Batts* labor supply. Using country of origin,
we classify immigrants into groups, paying particular attention to immigrants from Asia, where …

Empowerment of women in Islam: an introduction

T Azid, J Ward-Batts - Economic Empowerment of Women in the …, 2020 - World Scientific
More than half a billion Muslim women are living in 45 Muslim majority countries and more
than 30 countries have a significant Muslim minority population. “Muslim women aged …

Health, wealth and gender: do health shocks of husbands and wives have different impacts on household wealth?

J Ward-Batts - … Retirement Research Center Research Paper No …, 2001 - papers.ssrn.com
The extent to which men's versus women's health affects household wealth and the mechanisms
through which these effects occur have important implications for the welfare of older …

[BOOK][B] Economic Empowerment of Women in the Islamic World: Theory and Practice

T Azid, JL Ward-Batts - 2020 - books.google.com
The book, Economic Empowerment of Women in the Islamic World, discusses the economic,
social, and political rights and status of women in Islam, which is theoretically given by the …

Compulsory schooling in Turkey, educational attainment, and the gender gap

J Ward-Batts, K Nowacki - … OF WOMEN IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD …, 2020 - World Scientific
Education is one of the factors widely understood to affect women’s empowerment. Gender-neutral
compulsory schooling requirements can decrease gender gaps in education in some …

[PDF][PDF] Household Production, Consumption, and Retirement

J Ward-Batts - How Do We Spend Our Time, 2008 - research.upjohn.org
There are countless studies examining retirement timing, retirement savings behavior, and
consumption expenditures after retirement. We know far less about how people alter their …