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Degrees of Cooperation in Household Consumption Models : A Revealed Preference Analysis

Cherchye, L.J.H.; Demuynck, T.; de Rock, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009

We develop a revealed preference approach to analyze non-unitary con- sumption models with intrahousehold allocations deviating from the cooper- ative (or Pareto e¢ cient) solution. At a theoretical level, we establish re- vealed preference conditions of household consumption models with...

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Noncooperative Household Consumption with Caring

Cherchye, L.J.H.; Demuynck, T.; de Rock, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

We present a household consumption model that accounts for caring house- hold members, while allowing for noncooperative behavior in decisions on pub- lic goods. The intrahousehold consumption outcome critically depends on the degree of caring between the household members. By varying the degree...

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The Optimal Size for a Minority

Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

We investigate a setting in which members of a population, bifurcated into a majority and a minority, transact with randomly matched partners. All members are uniformly altruistic, and each transaction can be carried out cooperatively or through a market mechanism, with cooperative transactions...

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Faithful Strategies : How Religion Shapes Nonprofit Management

Filistrucchi, Lapo; Prüfer, Jens - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2013

Abstract: This paper studies the strategies employed by Catholic and Protestant nonprofit hospitals in Germany and traces them back to the theological foundations of those religions, which shape managers' values. We find that Catholic nonprofit hospitals follow a strategy of horizontal...

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Is altruism evolutionarily stable ?

Bester, H.; Güth, W. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1994

rationally with each other. By comparing the success of players with different preferences, we investigate whether evolution …

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Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf: Wie konsistent sind die Reformen?

Eichhorst, Werner; Thode, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Wenn institutionelle Rahmenbedingungen die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf behindern, wird die Wahl zwischen Erwerbstätigkeit und Familiengründung zu einer echten Entweder-oder-Entscheidung. In Deutschland und vielen anderen OECD-Ländern wurden deshalb Reformen eingeleitet, um die Balance...

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Part-Time Work, Gender and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from a Developing Country

López Bóo, Florencia; Madrigal, Lucia; Pagés, Carmen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

that partnered women with children, poor women or women working in the informal sector are more likely to prefer full …-time work than single women, partnered women without children, non-poor women or women working in the formal sector. These … results have important implications for the design of family and child care policies in low-income countries. …

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Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-time Work Puzzle

Booth, Alison; van Ours, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men … children do not care about their hours of work at all, while women with children are significantly happier if they have a job …

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Part-Time Jobs: What Women Want?

Booth, Alison L.; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side perspective, if the current situation of abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a...

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Part-time Jobs : What Women Want?

van Ours, Jan; Booth, A.L. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

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