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Should divorce be easier or harder? : the evidence, though weak, favors legal, easy, unilateral divorce
González, Libertad - 2014
beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …Many countries have enacted legislation over the past few decades making divorce easier. Some countries have legalized … divorce where it had previously been banned, and many have eased the conditions required for a divorce, such as allowing …
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Tax and benefit reforms to support employment and inclusiveness and address poverty in Italy
Bulman, Tim; Pacifico, Daniele; Pisu, Mauro; … - 2019
This paper assesses Italy’s 2019 tax and benefit reforms, analyses hypothetical reforms and proposes a reform package that balances goals of reducing poverty, encouraging employment and fiscal sustainability. Using the OECD’s Tax-Benefit and the EUROMOD microsimulation models, it shows that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202861
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Frontier History and Gender Norms in the United States
Bazzi, Samuel; Brodeur, Abel; Fiszbein, Martín; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …
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Drivers of Change : How Intra-household Preferences Shape Employment Responses to Gender Reform
Abou Daher, Chaza; Field, Erica Marie; Swanson, Kendal M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Billions of women still face legal barriers to economic inclusion, yet it is unclear whether lifting these barriers is sufficient to enhance their economic participation. We conduct a field experiment to quantify the impact of a major legal reform - the lifting of the Saudi women's driving ban -...
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How government sees couples on Universal Credit : a critical gender perspective
Bennett, Fran - In: The journal of poverty and social justice 29 (2021) 1, pp. 3-20
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Marriage-related policies in an estimated life-cycle model of households' labor supply and savings for two cohorts
Borella, Margherita; De Nardi, Mariacristina; Yang, Fang - 2017
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Household formation, female labor supply, and savings
Fehr, Hans; Kallweit, Manuel; Kindermann, Fabian - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 118 (2016) 4, pp. 868-911
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The US tax-transfer system and low-income households : savings, labor supply, and household formation
Ortigueira, Salvador; Siassi, Nawid - In: Review of economic dynamics 44 (2022), pp. 184-210
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Are marriage-related taxes and social security benefits holding back female labour supply?
Borella, Margherita; De Nardi, Mariacristina; Yang, Fang - In: The review of economic studies : RES 90 (2023) 1, pp. 102-131
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On the basis of (mis)trust? : spousal trust and trustworthiness in household decision making: experimental evidence from India
Sternberg, Henrike; Steinert, Janina; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2021 - This version: April 11, 2021
This paper examines the role of spousal trust in intra-household decision making through its potential of inciting the creation of information asymmetries in the presence of resource unobservability. We experimentally elicit spousal trust and trustworthiness by means of a binary trust game to...
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