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Nonparametric Welfare Analysis for Discrete Choice : Levels and Differences of Individual and Social Welfare
Capéau, Bart; Maes, Sebastiaan; Sadeleer, Liebrecht De; … - 2021
Empirical welfare analyses often impose stringent parametric assumptions on individuals’ preferences and neglect unobserved preference heterogeneity. In this paper, we develop a framework to conduct individual and social welfare analysis for discrete choice that does not suffer from these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228344
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Competition for Promotion Can Induce Household Specialization between Equally Competitive Spouses
Bastani, Spencer; Dickmanns, Lisa; Giebe, Thomas; … - 2022
asymmetric equilibrium featuring household specialization can arise. Examples where the asymmetric equilibrium is welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013293277
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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 … are equally weighted in the household utility function; (3) Differences in the ratio of the partners' hourly wages are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316615
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311580
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A Theoretical Analysis of the Effects of Legislation on Marriage, Fertility, Domestic Division of Labour, and the Education of Children
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two-stage game-theoretical model. The paper examines the effects of (i) family law (cost of obtaining a divorce, alimony, availability of quasi-marriages such as PACS in France, and civil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316739
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A public good version of the collective household model: an empirical approach with an application to British household data
van Klaveren, Chris; van Praag, Bernard M. S.; Maassen … - 2008
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 … are equally weighted in the household utility function; (3) Differences in the ratio of the partners' hourly wages are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276978
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Testing the Pareto efficiency of household resource allocations
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2008
African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto … inefficiency of a household resource allocation does not however refute the hypothesis that it chooses this resource allocation as … if it maximises some form of household welfare function possessing the Pareto property. To refute that hypothesis it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264378
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Welfare Losses of Road Congestion
Russo, Antonio - 2019
We estimate the marginal external congestion cost of motor-vehicle travel for Rome, Italy, using a methodology that accounts for hypercongestion (a situation where congestion decreases a road’s throughput). We show that the external cost – even when roads are not hypercongested...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867018
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Optimal Lockdown and Social Welfare
Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2021
This paper reexamines the design of the optimal lockdown strategy by paying attention to its robustness to the postulated social welfare criterion. We first characterize optimal lockdown under utilitarianism, and we show that this social criterion can, under some conditions, imply a COVID19...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314954
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Collective labor supply of native dutch and immigrant households in the Netherlands
van Klaveren, Chris; van Praag, Bernard M. S.; Maassen … - 2009
both spouses maximize a household utility function. We assume that paid labor and housework are the endogenous choice … variables and furthermore consider household production. Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish women differ from Dutch women because … they value (joint) household production more in their utility function. Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish men, on the other …
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