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Women's Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010
This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572535
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The Effect of Child Care on Family Structure: Theory and Evidence
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Borck, Rainald - CESifo - 2012
This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of children and spousal specialization in home...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877918
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Does the European Marriage Pattern Explain Economic Growth
Dennison, Tracy; Ogilvie, Sheilagh - CESifo - 2013
This paper scrutinizes the recently postulated link between the European Marriage Pattern (EMP) and economic success. A metastudy of the historical demography literature shows that the EMP did not prevail throughout Europe, its three key components did not always coincide, and its more extreme...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659185
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Household Relational Contracts for Marriage, Fertility and Divorce
Fahn, Matthias; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2011
the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371343
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877797
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Daddy Months
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948876
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Family Taxation, Fertility, and Horizontal Equity: A Political Economy Perspective
Balestrino, Alessandro - CESifo - 2012
whether i) the parents control their fertility or not, ii) they value their children or not. Second, it investigates the … all "relevant" senses identical should be treated identically); it turns out that under endogenous fertility, any winning … policy trivially satisfies horizontal equity, but if fertility is exogenous for some of (or all) the parents, horizontal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540255
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Employment Protection and Fertility: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform
Prifti, Ervin; Vuri, Daniela - CESifo - 2012
The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of … positive and sizable effect on fertility decisions of Italian working women. This result is robust to a number of checks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547899
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Gender Power, Fertility, and Family Policy
Kemnitz, Alexander; Thum, Marcel - CESifo - 2012
show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for … overcome the fertility bias. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551434
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Mixing Bismarck and Child Pension Systems:An Optimum Taxation Approach
Fenge, Robert; Weizsäcker, Jakob von - CESifo - 2006
Bismarck pension system. Distortions of the fertility decision can be reduced through the introduction of a stronger child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765728