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Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Couples Across Countries : A Macroeconomic Analysis
Bick, Alexander - 2017
We document contemporaneous differences in the aggregate labor supply of married couples across 17 European countries and the US. Based on a model of joint household decision making, we quantify the contribution of international differences in non-linear labor income taxes and consumption taxes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962113
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Household Relational Contracts for Marriage, Fertility and Divorce
Fahn, Matthias - 2011
the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117792
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Women's Education and Family Behavior : Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2021
in their marriages and with their family life, and are not only the least likely to divorce, but have had the biggest … decrease in divorce since the 1970s compared to women without a college degree. In contrast, there have been fewer changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316256
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Social Norms, Cognitive Dissonance and the Timing of Marriage
Balestrino, Alessandro - 2007
: the raising age of marriage, the prevalence of assortative mating and the common occurrence of divorce in the early years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776387
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Does the European Marriage Pattern Explain Economic Growth?
Dennison, T. K.; Ogilvie, Sheilagh - 2021
This paper scrutinizes the recently postulated link between the European Marriage Pattern (EMP) and economic success. A metastudy of the historical demography literature shows that the EMP did not prevail throughout Europe, its three key components did not always coincide, and its more extreme...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315780
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The Effect of Child Care on Family Structure: Theory and Evidence
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Borck, Rainald - CESifo - 2012
mothers than for single mothers. We show that this increases the number of single mothers and the divorce rate. Using survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877918
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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage Market Value of Young Men
Autor, David H. - 2018
We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility and children's living circumstances during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916528
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Women's Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010
in their marriages and with their family life, and are not only the least likely to divorce, but have had the biggest … decrease in divorce since the 1970s compared to women without a college degree. In contrast, there have been fewer changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572535
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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, and the demand for private and public child care are simultaneously endogenized and intertemporally determined. We characterize the path of the optimal decisions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317379
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On the Causes and Consequences of Divorce
Balestrino, Alessandro - 2008
: divorce has been introduced, and the number of marriages has decreased. We suggest that a taboo against divorce was part of … popular. We further notice that divorce is an extremely costly process, and once allowed it may act as an independent reason … subjectively evaluate the probability of facing a divorce using an availability heuristic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771405