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Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2014

We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...

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Family-Specific Investments and Divorce: A Theory of Dynamically Inconsistent Household Behavior

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Roeder, Kerstin - 2016

-U function of marriage duration, reaches its maximum when children are in their teens, and declines thereafter. We use our …This paper bridges two distinct areas of inquiry: the economic theory of the family and behavioral research on time …-inconsistent preferences. In our model, hyperbolic discounting couples engage in household production activities, thereby accumulating family …

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Quantifying Domestic Violence in Times of Crisis

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Siuda, Fabian - 2021

We propose a model that (i) provides an algorithm for measuring temporal variation in domestic violence incidence based on internet search activity and (ii) makes precise the conditions under which this measure yields less biased estimates of the domestic violence problem during periods of...

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Deterrence or Backlash? Arrests and the Dynamics of Domestic Violence

Amaral, Sofia; Dahl, Gordon B.; Endl-Geyer, Victoria; … - 2023

There is a vigorous debate on whether arrests for domestic violence (DV) will deter future abuse or create a retaliatory backlash. We study how arrests affect the dynamics of DV using administrative data for over 124,000 DV emergency calls (999 calls) for West Midlands, the second most populous...

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On the optimality of joint taxation for non-cooperative couples

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2010

We present a non-cooperative model of a family's time allocation between work and a home-produced public good, and … adjustment of intra-family transfers compensates the secondary earner for the increased tax load. …

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Beyond Ramsey: Gender-based taxation with non-cooperative couples

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2012

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 …

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Female Empowerment and Male Backlash

Guarnieri, Eleonora; Rainer, Helmut - 2018

Do policies and institutions that promote women’s economic empowerment have a long-term impact on intimate partner violence? We address this question by exploiting a natural experiment of history in Cameroon. From the end of WWI until 1961, the western territories of today’s Cameroon were...

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Quantifying Domestic Violence in Times of Crisis

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Siuda, Fabian - 2020

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Deterrence or Backlash? Arrests and the Dynamics of Domestic Violence

Amaral, Sofia; Dahl, Gordon B.; Endl-Geyer, Victoria; … - 2023

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Unemployment and Domestic Violence: Theory and Evidence

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - 2013

Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male...

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