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Battle of the Sexes: Non-Cooperative Games in the Theory of the Family

Lommerund, K.E. - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 1997

We look at private-provision-of-public goods games. These games share an assumption that family members non-cooperatively use their resources either to acquire a private good or a family-specific good. What exactly constitutes the "private good" and the "public good" will be seen to vary from...

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Please, Marry Me! An Experimental Study of Risking a Joint Venture.

Guth, W.; Ivanova-Stenzel, R.; Tjotta, S. - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2000

experimentally some crucial aspects of engaging in a marriage. First the female partner can end the relationship or suggest one of …

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Your place or mine? On the residence choice of young couples in Norway

Løken, Katrine Vellesen; Lommerud, Kjell Erik; … - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2011

their own parents than do married women, even if they have children, and this difference cannot be explained by differences … in observed characteristics. The principal source of excess female distance from parents in this population is the … resource flows, such as childcare and eldercare, are particularly important between women and their parents, the family …

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Love and taxes - and matching institutions

Konrad, Kai A.; Lommerud, Kjell Erik - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2008

We study a setting with search frictions in the marriage market and with incomplete contracting inside the family … the high-income earner may dislike the implicit income redistribution implied by the marriage. Redistributive income …. Redistributive taxation is shown both to further and stabilize marriage. …

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Education and Fertility: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Monstad, Karin; Propper, Carol; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2008

In many developed countries a decline in fertility has occurred. This development has been attributed to greater education of women. However, establishing a causal link is difficult as both fertility and education have changed secularly. The contribution of this paper is to study the connection...

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Mommy Tracks and Public Policy: On Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and Gender Gaps in Promotion.

Lommerud, K.E.; Vagstad, S. - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2000

Consider a model with two types of jobs. The profitability of promoting a worker to a fast-track job depends not only on his or her observable talent, but also on incontractible effort. We investigate whether self-fulfilling expectations may lead to a women meeting tougher promotion standards...

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On Private Incentives to Acquire Household Production Skills.

Vagstad, S. - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 1999

In non-cooperative models of the family, improved productivity in contribution to a family good typically implies that, in equilibrium, one contributes more to the public good, while one's spouse contributes less. Thus, improves contribution productivity has a negative strategic effect on one's...

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On Private Incentives to Aquire Household Production Skills.

Vagstad, S. - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2001

In non-cooperative family models, being good at contributing to family public good like household production may reduce one's utility, since it tends to crowd out contributions from one's spouse. Similar effects also arise in cooperative models with non-cooperative threat point: improved...

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The Bargaining Family Revisited.

Konrad, K.A.; Lommerud, K.E. - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2000

We suggest a family bargaining model where human capital investment decisions are made non-cooperatively in a first stage, while day-to-day allocation of time is determined later through Nash bargaining, but with non-cooperative behaviour as the fall-back. One finding is that overinvestment in...

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Marital Disruption in Norway.

Tjotta, S.; Vaage, K. - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2001

The divorce rate in Norway has increased sharply since the 1960s, and today Norway ranks among the countries with the highest divorce rates in Europe. In this paper we estimate determinants of marital instabilities.

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