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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
that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this …
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371343
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Unequal Bequests
Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - CESifo - 2015
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...
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Is Marriage as Good as a Contract?
Cigno, Alessandro - CESifo - 2013
Neither marriage nor a legally enforceable contract serves any useful purpose if the parties have access to a perfect credit market. In the presence of credit rationing, efficiency and utility equalization are guaranteed only by a legally enforceable contract. Separate-property marriage may...
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The Roommate Problem - Is More Stable Than You Think
Chiappori, Pierre-André; Galichon, Alfred; Salanié, … - CESifo - 2014
Stable matchings may fail to exist in the roommate matching problem, both when utility is transferable and when it is … not. We show that when utility is transferable, the existence of a stable matching is restored when there is an even … individuals of any given type is large enough there always exist “quasi-stable” matchings: a stable matching can be restored with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877757
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Matching as a Cure for Underprovision of Voluntary Public Good Supply: Analysis and an Example
Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk - CESifo - 2011
Matching mechanisms are regarded as an important instrument to bring about Pareto optimal allocations in a public good … interior matching equilibrium, however, emerges only under very special conditions. But we show in this note that corner …
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Potentially Harmful International Cooperation on Global Public Good Provision
Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk - CESifo - 2012
-called matching approaches. Matching schemes are regarded as providing a promising approach to overcome undersupply of public goods … like climate protection. The functioning of matching mechanisms in a setting with an incomplete agreement, i.e. a contract … by analyzing incomplete matching agreements in the context of international climate protection. We analyse their effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010559785
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Gender and Racial Biases: Evidence from Child Adoption
Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Collard-Wexler, Allan; Felli, … - CESifo - 2010
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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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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