introduced a set of reforms that led to a substantial expansion of public child care for under three year old children. Using …

prevents young couples from realizing their desire to have children. From a research perspective, it is however far from clear … whether fixed-term contracts are the obstacle to family formation that the public a priori expect them to be. In this paper … couples choose to have children early on in life, postpone it to later in life, or decide to remain childless? And: to what …

This paper explores the implications of gender-based income taxation in a non-cooperative model of a couple's time … by gender is solely determined by spouses' relative marginal rates of substitution between the public household good and … sharp contrast to previous models of gender-based taxation in which households select Pareto efficient allocations …

estimate the effects of total and gender-specific unemployment rates on domestic violence. The analysis uses the substantial … variation in the increase in unemployment across areas, gender, and age-groups associated with the onset of the latest recession … which (i) marriage provides insurance against employment risk through the pooling of resources, and (ii) a woman does not …