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Rational Addiction when there are Two Addictive Goods: Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco

Bask, Mikael; Melkersson, Maria - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2000

The seminal paper by Becker and Murphy (1988) proposed a model acknowledging both addiction and rationality in the consumption of addictive goods. We extend this rational addiction model to include two addictive consumption goods, where the goods may be substitutes or complements, and may...

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Rational Addiction and Smoking when there are Legal and Illegal Cigarettes

Bask, Mikael; Melkersson, Maria - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2000

We propose an extension of the often used rational addiction model. Our model includes both legal and illegal cigarettes. The model is tested on a Swedish data set covering the aggregate legal and illegal cigarette markets. When we treat legal and illegal cigarettes as independent demand...

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Rationally Addicted to Drinking and Smoking?

Bask, Mikael; Melkersson, Maria - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2001

When modeling demand for addictive consumption goods, the most widely used framework is the rational addiction model proposed by Becker and Murphy (1988). In the present paper, we extend the rational addiction model to include two addictive consumption goods, alcohol and cigarettes. We estimate...

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The Effects of Assortative Mating on Earnings: Human Capital Spillover or Specialization?

Åström, Johanna - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009

. Theoretically, the high productivity of a spouse in a marriage could affect the other spouse’s earnings in two ways: negatively … residuals from estimates of pre-marriage earnings equations. Results indicate that there are negative effects of the spouse … marriage. However, closer examination shows that only the youngest groups of males and females experience this negative effect …

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The Effects of Spousal Education on Individual Earnings – A Study of Married Swedish Couples

Åström, Johanna - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009

A positive association between spousal education and individual earnings is a common empirical finding (e.g., Benham, 1974 and Rossetti and Tanda, 2000). The two most common explanations for this are sample selection and crossproductivity effects. Can spouses really benefit from each other’s...

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Marriage, Money and Migration

Åström, Johanna - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009

spouses’ labor market performances. Productivity is approximated with residuals from estimates of pre-marriage earnings … and females, and that this effect appears to be enhanced by the duration of the marriage. Paper [IV] studies spousal …

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Marital Status and Unobserved Heterogeneity - Do twins suggest a genetic inheritance?

Nilsson, William - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006

The purpose of this study is to reveal the importance of unobserved heterogeneity on marital status. The results for monozygotic (identical) and dizygotic twins indicate an important genetic component in marital status. Simply controlling for marital status could be misleading

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Gender Norms, Work Hours, and Corrective Taxation

Aronsson, Thomas; Granlund, David - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2013

This paper deals with optimal income taxation based on a model with households where men and women allocate their time between market work and household production, and where households differ depending on which spouse has comparative advantage in market work. The purpose is to analyze the tax...

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Intra-household Allocation of Time to Household Production Activities - Evidence from Swedish Household Data

Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2001

The purpose of this paper is to study the intra-household allocation of time to several household production activities using Swedish cross-sectional household data. The Tobit model is rejected in favor of the Cragg model, suggesting that the intra-household time allocation is best modeled by a...

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Estimating Intrahousehold Allocation in a Collective Model With Household Production

Aronsson, Thomas; Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Wikström, Magnus - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the intra-family distribution of income and the individual demand for leisure and household production from Swedish cross-sectional household data. As a basis for the analysis, we use a collective model where each individual is characterized by his or her...

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