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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020094
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165504
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Collective Labor Supply of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in the Netherlands
Klaveren, Chris Van; Praag, Bernard M.S. Van; Brink, … - CESifo - 2009
We estimate a collective time allocation model, where Dutch, Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish households behave as if both spouses maximize a household utility function. We assume that paid labor and housework are the endogenous choice variables and furthermore consider household production....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534039
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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
In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for two-earner households. The novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collective household model, where the internally produced goods and the externally purchased goods are assumed to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406246
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Testing the Pareto Efficiency of Household Resource Allocations
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406400
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Playing with the Good Guys - A Public Good Game with Endogenous Group Formation
Brekke, Kjell Arne; Hauge, Karen Evelyn; Lind, Jo Thori; … - CESifo - 2009
In public good games, voluntary contributions tend to start off high and decline as the game is repeated. If high contributors are matched, however, contributions tend to stay high. We propose a formalization predicting that high contributors will self-select into groups committed to charitable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979399
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - CESifo - 2008
Recent theoretical contributions depart from the usual practice of treating individual attitude endowments as a black box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094270
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Will Women Save more than Men? A Theoretical Model of Savings and Marriage
Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra; Pereira, Alfredo Marvao - CESifo - 2010
This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and … which accommodates the possible presence of economies or diseconomies of scale from marriage. We show that a scenario of … higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511602
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877918