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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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Household models: an historical perspective
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2007
This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to suggest that the literature's neglect of Samuelson's...
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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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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - 2014
Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to fathers) increases expenditures on children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non-cooperative model of household decision making to...
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Testing the Pareto efficiency of household resource allocations
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2008
In a careful and thorough empirical study, Christopher Udry (1996) shows convincingly that, in a large sample of West African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto inefficiency of a household resource allocation...
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Family Bargaining and the Gender Gap in Informal Care
Canta, Chiara; Cremer, Helmuth - 2022
We study the optimal long-term care policy when informal care can be provided by children in exchange for monetary transfers by their elderly parents. We consider a bargaining model with single-child families. Daughters have a lower labor market wage and a lower bargaining power within the...
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Marriage Market Equilibrium, Qualifications, and Ability
Anderberg, Dan - 2019
We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …
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Male Investment in Schooling with Frictional Labour and Marriage Markets
Bonilla, Roberto - 2020
We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. Women's flow value of being … sequential job search, and can choose to improve their labour market returns as well as their marriage prospects by under …
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International Family Migration and the Dual-Earner Model
Munk, Martin D.; Nikolka, Till; Poutvaara, Panu - 2017
Gender differences in labor force participation are exceptionally small in Nordic countries. We investigate how couples emigrating from Denmark self-select and sort into different destinations and whether couples pursue the dual-earner model, in which both partners work, when abroad. Female...
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The Gender Gap in Informal Child Care: Theory and Some Evidence from Italy
Barigozzi, Francesca; Cremer, Helmuth; Monfardini, Chiara - 2019
Our model studies couples’ time allocation and career choices, which are affected by a social norm on gender roles in the family. Parents can provide two types of informal child care: basic care (feeding, changing children, baby-sitting) and quality care (activities that stimulate children’s...
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