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The Application of the Capability Approach to High-Income OECD Countries: A Preliminary Survey

Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2011

The goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary overview of empirical Capability Approach (CA) applications for high-income OECD countries. The survey aims at a basis of mutual exchange on relevant CA issues among researchers analyzing well-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA...

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Migration and Networks: Does Education Matter more than Gender?

Beine, Michel; Salomone, Sara - CESifo - 2010

at whether diaspora effects are different across education levels and gender. Using new data allowing to include both … influencing the selection in terms skills and in term of gender. We found that network effects vary by education level but not by … gender. Women are also found to be less directly dependent on migration costs unrelated to networks such as distance. …

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United but (Un)Equal: Human Capital, Probability of Divorce and the Marriage Contract

Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre; Roeder, Kerstin - CESifo - 2012

This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk. Symmetry in education (both spouses receive an equal...

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The Impact of Paternity Leave on Long-term Father Involvement

Rege, Mari; Solli, Ingeborg F. - CESifo - 2010

Using Norwegian registry data we investigate how paternity leave affects fathers’ long-term earnings. In 1993 Norway introduced a paternity quota of the paid parental leave. We estimate a difference-in-differences model which exploits differences in fathers' exposure to the paternity quota....

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On the Optimality of Joint Taxation for Non-Cooperative Couples

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2010

We present a non-cooperative model of a family’s time allocation between work and a home-produced public good, and examine whether the income tax should apply to couples or individuals. While tax-induced labor supply distortions lead to overprovision of the public good, spouses’ failure to...

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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

This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this studies identifies the timing of work hours that cannot be...

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Household Relational Contracts for Marriage, Fertility and Divorce

Fahn, Matthias; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2011

This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to a model in which a couple decides whether to marry or cohabit, 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....

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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-run educational outcomes of the older siblings. Using...

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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - CESifo - 2014

Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to fathers) increases expenditures on children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non-cooperative model of household decision making to...

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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

We investigate how mother’s employment during childhood affects long term child outcomes. We utilize rich longitudinal data from Norway covering the entire Norwegian population between the years 1970 to 2007. The data allows us to match all family members and to measure maternal labor force...

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