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Gender Norms, Work Hours, and Corrective Taxation

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

in market work. The purpose is to analyze the tax policy implications of gender norms represented by a market-work norm …. The results show how the welfarist government may use tax policy to internalize the externalities caused by these norms …, and how the paternalist government may use tax policy to make the households behave as if the norms were absent. …

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Scenes from a Marriage: Divorce and Financial Behavior

Zetterdahl, Emma - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2015

In this paper, the impact of divorce on individual financial behavior is empirically examined. Evidence that divorcing individuals increase their saving rates before the divorce is presented. This may be seen as a response of the increase in background risk. After the divorce, negative...

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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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Endogenous Disinvestment Activities and the Transformation to a new Equilibrium. A computable general equilibrium approach

Norén, Ronny - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2001

The contribution of this book is the explicit recognitation of the importance of endogenous disinvestment activities to a new equilibrium. This is embodied in the condition specifying the economic life of capital to account for obsolescence. This specification provides the formal link between...

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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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Tax or no tax? Preferences for climate policy attributes

Brännlund, Runar; Persson, Lars - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2010

with instruments labeled by ‘tax’ and ‘other’, whereas the other half are faced with unlabeled instruments. As for the … label, the results show that people dislike the ‘tax’. The results also show that people prefer instruments with a positive …

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Income, Energy Taxation, and the Environment: An Econometric Analysis

Ghalwash, Tarek - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006

the “rebound effect”. To neutralize the rebound effect, we estimate the necessary change in CO2 tax, i.e. the CO2 tax that … approximately 5 percent. To reduce the CO2 emissions to their initial level, CO2 tax must be raised by 130 percent. This tax … environmental taxes the consumer price for energy goods is partitioned into a producer price part and a tax part. <p> In Paper [III …

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