Search Results - subject:"family bargaining"

Family Bargaining and Taxes: A Prolegomenon to the Analysis of Joint Taxation

Pollak, Robert A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

satisfactory analysis of the effects of taxation on human capital awaits the further development of dynamic models of family … bargaining. …

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O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Effects of Having a Sibling on Geographic Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes

Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

In most industrialized countries, more people than ever are having to cope with the burden of caring for elderly parents. This paper formulates a model to explain how parental care responsibilities and family structure interact in affecting children’s mobility characteristics. A key insight we...

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Gary Becker's Contributions to Family and Household Economics

Pollak, Robert - In: Review of Economics of the Household 1 (2003) 1, pp. 111-141

Gary Becker's influence on the economics of the family has been pervasive. His ideas have dominated research in the economics of the family, shaping the tools we use, the questions we ask, and the answers we give. The foundational assumptions of Becker's economic approach to the...

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On private incentives to acquire household production skills

Vagstad, Steinar - In: Journal of Population Economics 14 (2001) 2, pp. 301-312

In non-cooperative family models, being good at contributing to family public goods like household production may reduce one's utility, since it tends to crowd out contributions from one's spouse. Similar effects also arise in cooperative models with non-cooperative threat point: improved...

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The Bargaining Family Revisited.

Konrad, K.A.; Lommerud, K.E. - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2000

We suggest a family bargaining model where human capital investment decisions are made non-cooperatively in a first …

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The Bargaining Family Revisited

Konrad, Kai A.; Lommerud, Kjell Erik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

We suggest a family bargaining model where human capital investment decisions are made non-cooperatively in a first … as the fall back. Several authors have claimed that non-cooperative behaviour is a more appropriate fall back in family … bargaining than utilities as single. We argue that the empirical implications of the two approaches are quite parallel. A second …

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Specialization in the bargaining family

Hyee, Raphaela; Robledo, Julio R. - School of Economics, University of Nottingham

We develop a two period family decision making model in which spouses bargain over their contributions to a family public good and the distribution of private consumption. In contrast to most models in the literature, specialization within the couple emerges endogenously from the production of...

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