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Labour Income Taxation, Human Capital and Growth: The Role of Child Care

Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper studies the effects of labour income taxation on growth in an OLG model where both formal schooling and child care enter the human capital production function as complements. We compare them with the effects obtained in a model where only formal schooling matters for skill formation....

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Taxation, Aggregates and the Household

Guner, Nezih; Kaygusuz, Remzi; Ventura, Gustavo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We evaluate reforms to the U.S. tax system in a dynamic setup with heterogeneous married and single households, and with an operative extensive margin in labour supply. We restrict our model with observations on gender and skill premia, labour force participation of married females across skill...

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Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform: The Case of Divorced Parents

Francesconi, Marco; Rainer, Helmut; Van Der Klaauw, Wilbert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper formulates a model to examine the effects of changes in tax-benefit policy on the behavior of divorced parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support payment to transfer to custodians. These, in turn, decide...

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Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Women across Countries: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Bick, Alexander; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We document contemporaneous differences in the aggregate labor supply of married couples across 19 OECD countries. We quantify the contribution of international differences in non-linear labor income taxes and consumption taxes, as well as male and female wages, to the international differences...

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Taxing Women: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Guner, Nezih; Kaygusuz, Remzi; Ventura, Gustavo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Based on well-known evidence on labor supply elasticities, several authors have concluded that women should be taxed at lower rates than men. We evaluate the quantitative implications and merits of this proposition. Relative to the current system of taxation, setting a proportional tax rate on...

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Marriage as a Rat Race: Noisy Pre-Marital Investments with Assortative Matching

Bhaskar, Venkataraman; Hopkins, Ed - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study the incentives of parents to invest in their children when these investments improve their marriage prospects …, in a frictionless marriage market with non-transferable utility. Stochastic returns to investment eliminate the …

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Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … quarter century. Marriage rates have also been falling, but more strikingly, the importance of marriage at different points in … the life cycle has changed, reflecting rising age at first marriage, rising divorce followed by high remarriage rates, and …

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Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. What can explain this? It is argued … marriage and divorce is developed. Household production benefits from labour-saving technological progress. …

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The Extra Burden of Moslem Wives: Clues from Israeli Women's Labour Supply

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

which different religious groups have established to regulate marriage and divorce. Our results suggest that Christian … appear to be less likely to translate their resources into a higher value of time in marriage than either Christian women or …

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Aggregate Labor Market Outcomes: The Role of Choice and Chance

Krusell, Per; Mukoyama, Toshihiko; Rogerson, Richard; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Commonly used frictional models of the labor market imply that changes in frictions have large effects on steady state employment and unemployment. We use a model that features both frictions and an operative labor supply margin to examine the robustness of this feature to the inclusion of a...

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