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Explaining spatial variation in homeownership rates: Results for German regions

Lerbs, Oliver; Oberst, Christian - 2011

A wide range of aggregate data is used to examine the spatial variation in homeownership rates among a cross-section of … spatial dependence in homeownership levels. In addition to familiar demographic and socioeconomic variables, the regional … disparities in homeownership rates between eastern and western Germany as well as between rural, urbanized and agglomerated …

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Home Ownership and Monetary Policy Transmission

Koeniger, Winfried - 2019

We present empirical evidence on the heterogeneity in monetary policy transmission across countries with different home ownership rates. We use household-level data together with shocks to the policy rate identified from high-frequency data. We find that housing tenure reacts more strongly to...

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Pensions, Income Taxes and Homeownership : A Cross-Country Analysis

Fehr, Hans; Hofmann, Maurice; Kudrna, George - 2021

This paper studies the role of pensions and income taxes in determining homeownership and household wealth. It provides … have similar incomes per capita but very different homeownership rates, with the US and Australia having much higher … homeownership compared to Germany. The question is to what extent the observed differences in homeownership are induced by national …

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Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply

Boca, Daniela Del - 2020

Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply. The attendance of labor-market-oriented mentoring...

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Exposure to the COVID-19 Stock Market Crash and its Effect on Household Expectations

Hanspal, Tobin - 2020

expectations and planned behavior. Wealth shocks are associated with upward adjustments of expectations about retirement age … wealth and their planned investment decisions and labor market activity. Our findings shed light on the implications of …

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Gender Norms and Income Misreporting within Households

Roth, Anja - 2019

We show that the discontinuity in the distribution of surveyed female income shares at the margin where a woman would outearn her partner is primarily driven by norm induced misreporting in surveys. We draw on unique Swiss data combining survey and administrative information for the same...

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Competition for Promotion Can Induce Household Specialization between Equally Competitive Spouses

Bastani, Spencer; Dickmanns, Lisa; Giebe, Thomas; … - 2022

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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A Public Good Version of the Collective Household Model : An Empirical Approach with an Application to British Household Data

Klaveren, Chris van; van Praag, B.M.S; Maassen van den … - 2021

In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for two-earner households. The novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collective household model, where the internally produced goods and the externally purchased goods are assumed to be...

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Globalization, Gender, and the Family

Keller, Wolfgang - 2020

This paper shows that in the presence of labor market shocks, child-bearing and child-rearing have far-reaching implications for gender inequality, household specialization and family structure. Using population register data on all births, marriages, and divorces together with employer-employee...

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Does Paternity Leave Promote Gender Equality within Households?

Gonzalez, Libertad; Zoabi, Hosny - 2021

We consider a non-cooperative model of the household, in which the husband and wife decide on parental leave and the allocation of time between child rearing and the labor market. They can choose the non-cooperative outside option or cooperate by reaching an agreement of specialization in which...

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