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Is it money or brains? The determinants of intra-family decision power
Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Torricelli, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We empirically study the determinants of intra-household decision power with respect to economic and financial choices using a suitable direct measure provided in the 1989-2010 Bank of Italy Survey of Household Income and Wealth. Focusing on a sample of couples, we evaluate the effect of each...
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Kinky Choices, Dictators and Split Might: A Non-Cooperative Model for Household Consumption and Labor Supply
Boone, Jan; van der Wiel, Karen; Vermeulen, Frederic - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
It is unlikely that husbands and wives always agree on exactly what public goods to buy. Nor do they necessarily agree on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We therefore model consumption and labor supply behavior of a couple in a non-cooperative setting...
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Collective Labour Supply: Heterogeneity and Non-Participation
Blundell, Richard William; Chiappori, Pierre-André; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We present identification and estimation results for the 'collective' model of labour supply in which there are discrete choices, censoring of hours and non-participation in employment. We derive the collective restrictions on labour supply functions and contrast them with restrictions implied...
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An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Greenwood, Jeremy; Kircher, Philipp; Santos, Cezar; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
(some forms of promoting condoms or marriage), the quantitative exercise suggests that these effects may increase HIV …
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Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of … marriage markets will naturally tend to be hypergamous - that is, a marriage is more likely to be beneficial to both parties … goes up. The model sheds light on how marriage affects the returns to human capital for men and women. Absent marriage …
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Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany
Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P; Siedler, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...
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Unravelling Secularization: an International Study
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
, personal attributes and marriage variables) was employed to test for the determinants of this decision. It was found that the …
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Unequal Bequests
Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...
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Free to Leave? A Welfare Analysis of Divorce Regimes
Fernández, Raquel; Wong, Joyce Cheng - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor force participation (LFP), and marriage and divorce decisions subject …
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Is the Household Demand for In-Home Services Sensitive to Tax Reductions? The French Case
Flipo, Anne; Fougère, Denis; Olier, Lucile - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
Our paper is concerned with the impact of tax reductions on the demand for services in the home. For that purpose, we consider the particular case of the French legislation voted in 1991. This law allows households employing paid help in the home to deduct from their income tax 50% of the sums...
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