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We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...
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whether i) the parents control their fertility or not, ii) they value their children or not. Second, it investigates the …
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The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the … birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal choice. In a model of cooperative decision making within a family, we …
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Given that young children are under the control of their parents, if the government has an interest in either the …
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in the usual way, and an unconventional one allowing them to qualify for a pension by having children, and investing time …
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, how many children to have and subsequently whether to stay together or separate. We make precise the idea that cooperation … in a household can be supported by self interest. Since the costs of raising children are unequally distributed among … effects of policy variables such as rights of access to children post-separation and wealth division/alimony rules, as well as …
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In a careful and thorough empirical study, Christopher Udry (1996) shows convincingly that, in a large sample of West African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto inefficiency of a household resource allocation...
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children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non … spend more on children, even when they have exactly the same preferences as their husbands. However, this does not …
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women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation … exposed to two informational treatments on the positive consequences of formal childcare on children future educational …
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This paper uses a new data set on domestic child adoption to document the preferences of potential adoptive parents over born and unborn babies relinquished for adoption by their birth mothers. We show that adoptive parents exhibit significant biases in favor of girls and against...
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