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Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second …-best efficient to deviate from Ramsey's Rule and to distort qualified labour less than nonqualified labour. The result holds for …
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The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we survey the way in which the tax burden on labour has been proxied for … extent the conclusions of some studies change if some alternative indicator for the tax burden on labour is employed. We … indicator for the tax burden on labour is also shown to affect the conclusions of some well-known empirical models. …
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We attempt to answer a simple empirical question: does having children make a parent live longer? The hypothesis we offer is that a parent's immune system is refreshed by a child's infections at a time when their own protection starts wearing thin. With the boosted immune system, the parent has...
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Under the common-law system of coverture in the United States, a married woman relinquished control of property and wages to her husband. Many U.S. states passed acts between 1850 and 1920 that expanded a married woman’s right to keep her market earnings and to own separate property. The...
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We analyze equally competitive spouses competing for promotion in their respective workplaces and show that an asymmetric equilibrium featuring household specialization can arise. Examples where the asymmetric equilibrium is welfare-superior to the symmetric equilibrium are highlighted. By...
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effects on earnings and full-time employment even when the child was no longer eligible for Cash-for-Care at ages four and … attached to the labor force through part-time employment. …
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decisions and intergenerational transfers are governed by self-enforcing family constitutions. We then show that first and …
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We investigate how changes in the sex ratio induced by World War II affected the bargaining patterns of Italian men in the marriage market after the war. Marriage data from the first wave of the Italian Household Longitudinal Survey (1997) are matched with newly digitized information on war...
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Family and social networks are widely believed to influence important life decisions but identifying their causal …
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whether the ACA dependent care provision is associated with family structure and public program participation among young …
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