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Competitive Markets, Collective Decisions and Group Formation

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - CESifo - 2003

We consider a general equilibrium model where groups operating in a competitive market environment can have several members and make efficient collective consumption decisions. Individuals have the option to leave the group and make it on their own or join another group. We study the effect of...

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Bargaining Power and Equilibrium Consumption

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - CESifo - 2005

We examine how a shift of bargaining power within households operating in a competitive market environment affects equilibrium allocation and welfare. If price effects are sufficiently small, then typically an individual benefits from an increase of bargaining power, necessarily to the detriment...

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Non-Parametric Preprocessing for the Estimation of Equivalence Scales

Dudel, Christian; Garbuszus, Jan Marvin; Ott, Notburga; … - CESifo - 2014

Empirically analyzing household behavior usually relies on informal data preprocessing. That is, before an econometric model is estimated, observations are selected in such a way that the resulting subset of data can be assumed to be sufficiently homogeneous with respect to the specific research...

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General Equilibrium with Multi-Member Households and Production

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - CESifo - 2011

We consider firms and multi-member households operating in a competitive market environment. Households are endowed with resources (commodity bundles) and shares of firm ownership. Household members are characterized by individual preferences, possibly with intra-household consumption...

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Home with Mom: The Effects of Stay-at-Home Parents on Children's Long-Run Educational Outcomes

Bettinger, Eric; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rege, Mari - CESifo - 2013

In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents’ incentives to stay home with children … under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long … not by changes in family income or father’s labor force participation. …

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A Public Good Version of the Collective Household Model: An Empirical Approach with an Application to British Household Data

Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Brink, … - CESifo - 2008

production is influenced by family size, but this does not hold for the male; (5) Both the male and the female have a backward …

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Nobody Home: The Effect of Maternal Labor Force Participation on Long-Term Child Outcomes

Haaland, Venke Furre; Rege, Mari; Votruba, Mark - CESifo - 2013

family types. We compare sibling differences in families where the mother enters the labor force when the children are older … family members and to measure maternal labor force participation throughout the child’s entire childhood. Our empirical … out of the labor force during the entirety of her children’s adolescent years. Our identification strategy is, therefore …

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Pocketbook Voting and Social Preferences in Referenda

Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - CESifo - 2015

We study the role of self-interest and social preferences in referenda. Our analysis is based on collective purchasing decisions of university students on deep-discount flat rate tickets for public transportation and culture. Individual usage data allows quantifying monetary benefits associated...

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Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments

Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon - CESifo - 2008

We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit individuals’ cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them – as well as subjects’ elicited beliefs – to explain contributions to a public good played repeatedly....

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Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: A Preference-based Lucas Critique of Public Policy

Bowles, Samuel; Reyes, Sandra Polanía - CESifo - 2009

Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...

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