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The Effect of Child Care on Family Structure : Theory and Evidence
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2012
children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …
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Intergenerational Transmission of Skills During Childhood and Optimal Public Policy
Casarico, Alessandra; Micheletto, Luca; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2021
that a public policy that disregards the effects of parental time on children's human capital entails a welfare loss that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316071
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Household Relational Contracts for Marriage, Fertility and Divorce
Fahn, Matthias - 2011
in a household can be supported by self interest. Since the costs of raising children are unequally distributed among …, how many children to have and subsequently whether to stay together or separate. We make precise the idea that cooperation … effects of policy variables such as rights of access to children post-separation and wealth division/alimony rules, as well as …
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Labor Supply and the Demand for Child Care : An Intertemporal Approach
Upmann, Thorsten; Minagawa, Junichi - 2021
In this paper, we present a model of a one parent-one child household where parental decisions on labor supply, leisure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317379
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Anticipated Consumption and its Impact on Capital Accumulation and Growth : 'Forward-Looking' vs. 'Backward-Looking' Consumption Reference
Monteiro, Goncalo; Turnovsky, Stephen J. - 2021
It has long been argued that the anticipations of some future event will impact current consumption and well-being in advance of the occurrence of the event itself. This paper introduces this idea of anticipated pleasure into the Ramsey growth model, by assuming that in addition to his own...
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Households, Markets and Public Choice
Gersbach, Hans - 2014
sufficient conditions for the existence of competitive equilibria with endogenous household formation and public choice …
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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
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Media Market Concentration, Advertising Levels, and Ad Prices
Anderson, Simon P. - 2011
Standard media economics models imply that increased platform competition decreases ad levels and that mergers reduce per-viewer ad prices. The empirical evidence, however, is mixed. We attribute the theoretical predictions to the combined assumptions that there is no advertising congestion and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117358
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Persuading Consumers with Social Attitudes
Halbheer, Daniel - 2011
This paper analyzes persuasive advertising and pricing in oligopoly if firms sell differentiated products and consumers have heterogeneous social attitudes towards the consumption by others. Deriving product demand from primitives, we show that the demand-enhancing effect of persuasive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124388
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Uncertain Longevity and Investment in Education
Sheshinski, Eytan - 2009
It has been argued that increased life expectancy raises the rate of return on education, causing a rise in the investment in education followed by an increase in lifetime labor supply. Empirical evidence of these relations is rather weak. Building on a lifecycle model with uncertain longevity,...
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