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Intra-Household Work Timing: The Effect on Joint Activities and the Demand for Child Care

Klaveren, Chris Van; Brink, Henriette Maassen van den; … - CESifo - 2011

communicate on the timing of their work. The main findings are that couples with children create less overlap in their work times … and this effect is more pronounced the younger the children. We find evidence for a togetherness preference of spouses …

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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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Optimal Taxation, Child Care and Models of the Household

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2012

This paper presents for the .rst time the properties of optimal piece-wise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction of second earner wage di¤erences, variation in prices of bought-in...

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Capital Income Taxation and the Mirrlees Review

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2012

The Mirrlees Review of the UK tax system, together with its companion volume of research papers, can be expected to influence future discussions of tax reform. Indeed, this can already be recognised in the Henry Review. As far as income taxation is concerned, the most substantive recommendation...

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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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Social Preferences and Portfolio Choice

Riedl, Arno; Smeets, Paul - CESifo - 2013

We empirically investigate the effect of social preferences on portfolio choice. We use administrative investor data and link them to behavior in a controlled experiment and to survey responses. We show that social preferences rather than (biased) risk-return expectations are predictive for...

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Three Family Policies to Reconcile Fertility and Labor Supply

Fenge, Robert; Stadler, Lisa - CESifo - 2014

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children … in balancing family and work than parental leave payments. The welfare analysis shows that the introduction of subsidies …

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Infant Mortality in Rural Bangladesh : State Dependence vs. Unobserved Heterogeneity

van soest, arthur; Saha, U.R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009

Using longitudinal data of the Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) in Matlab, Bangladesh, covering the time period 1982 – 2005, and exploiting dynamic panel data models, we analyze siblings’ death at infancy, controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and a causal effect of death...

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