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Why are middle-aged people so depressed? : evidence from West Germany
Brockmann, Hilke (contributor) - 2009
Does happiness vary with age? The evidence is inconclusive. Some studies show happiness to increase with age (Diener et … Christian, 1998; Blanchflower and Oswald, 2008) or highest happiness levels occurring during middle age (Easterlin, 2006 … and cohorteffects. Secondly, all empirical research lacks a theoretical explanation as to why age affects happiness. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636115
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Child care costs and mothers' labor supply : an empirical analysis for Germany
Wrohlich, Katharina (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001972923
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Subjective well-being and relative deprivation : an empirical link
D'Ambrosio, Conchita (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i …-being depending more on relative satisfaction than on absolute levels of income. This finding holds even after controlling for other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002390091
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Are people inequality averse, and do they prefer redistribution by the state? : Evidence from German longitudinal data on life satisfaction ; a revised version
Schwarze, Johannes (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001972641
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Fertility Theories: Can They Explain the Negative Fertility-Income Relationship?
Jones, Larry E.; Tertilt, Michele; Schoonbroodt, Alice - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
invest more in children and less in market-specific human capital and thus have lower earnings. We revisit these and other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084746
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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes
Zhang, Junsen; Conti, Gabriella; Yi, Junjian; Heckman, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103509
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Gender Based Taxation and the Division ofFamily Chores
Alesina, Alberto; Ichino, Andrea; Karabarbounis, Loukas - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey´s optimal criterion by taxing less the moreelastic labor supply of (married) women. This holds when different elasticities between menand women are taken as exogenous and primitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861090
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Women's Liberation: What's in It for Men?
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
their own daughters and because an expansion of women's rights increases educational investments in children. We show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718933
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Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores
Alesina, Alberto; Ichino, Andrea; Karabarbounis, Loukas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Gender-Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey's rule of optimality because it taxes at a lower rate the more elastic labor supply of women. This holds when different elasticities between men and women are taken as exogenous. We study GBT in a model in which labor supply elasticities emerge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005775032
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Total Work, Gender and Social Norms
Hamermesh, Daniel; Weil, Philippe; Burda, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Using time-diary data from 25 countries, we demonstrate that there is a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and the female-male difference in total work time per day -- the sum of work for pay and work at home. In rich northern countries on four continents, including the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778850