This paper examines optimal taxation of capital and labor income in a dynamic model with occupational choice.

This paper accounts for the decline in the labor force participation of married women in the US since 1995. We first document that this phenomenon is mainly driven by a decline in participation of college women married to high earning men. We argue that the rise in skill premium and especially...

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The strong positive correlation between output and employment is probably one of the most widely accepted stylized facts about business cycles. However, the recoveries following the 1991-92, 2001, and 2007-09 recessions all turned out to be exceptions to this widely accepted pattern. These...

This paper introduces households in a dynamic Mirrleesian economy and explores the resulting implications for optimal taxes. Households are modelled as a long run partnerships between two individuals. Each agent also in a long term relationship with the government, whose preferences are defined...

Using a comprehensive panel dataset on U.S. households, we study the effects of the 2005 bankruptcy reform on bankruptcy, delinquency and debt accumulation. We find that the reform coincided with a 23% permanent drop in the bankruptcy rate relative to pre-reform level. We further document that...

This paper studies optimal taxation of entrepreneurial capital and financial assets in economies with private information. Returns to entrepreneurial capital are risky and depend on entrepreneurs' effort, which is not observed. The presence of idiosyncratic risk in capital returns implies that...

The purpose of this paper is to study how progress in home production technologies and in medical technologies influences gender differences in labor market outcomes and the household division of labor, in an economy with endogenous gender roles. We consider a model in which incentive problems...