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Family-Specific Investments and Divorce : A Theory of Dynamically Inconsistent Household Behavior
Anderberg, Dan - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985414
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Daddy Months
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315569
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Daddy Months
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948876
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Beyond Ramsey : Gender-Based Taxation with Non-Cooperative Couples
Meier, Volker - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098952
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On the Optimality of Joint Taxation for Non-Cooperative Couples
Meier, Volker - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139871
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On the Optimality of Joint Taxation for Non-Cooperative Couples
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511612
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Beyond Ramsey: Gender-Based Taxation with Non-Cooperative Couples
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010584285
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Domestic Abuse : Instrumental Violence and Economic Incentives
Anderberg, Dan - 2011
-monotonic relationship between the gender wage gap and domestic violence. We explore the implication of this result in the context of various …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117362
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Political Socialization in Flux? Linking Family Non-Intactness During Childhood to Adult Civic Engagement
Hener, Timo - 2012
-intact family and children's civic, social and political engagement as adults. We argue that this finding is consistent with … traditional family structures in many countries throughout the developed world. According to Putnam in Bowling alone (2000 …), however, none of the major declines in civic engagement can be accounted for by the decline in traditional family structures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100944
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Unemployment and Domestic Violence : Theory and Evidence
Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315745