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that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this study …
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This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with …
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In a family context with endogenous timing, multiple public goods and alternative parental instruments, we show that …
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We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...
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We demonstrate that the notion of a “family constitution” (self-enforcing, renegotiation-proof family norm) requiring … family constitutions …
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This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk. Symmetry in education (both spouses receive an equal...
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correlation of permanent earnings into family and community effects allowing for life-cycle dynamics; finding that family is the …
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leisure increased most in France and least in the U.S. Contrary to what standard theory predicts, home hours changed …
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We study the usually assumed trade-off between income and leisure in labor supply decisions using comprehensive German …. Additionally, satisfaction with family life increases, which may be a hidden benefit of being unemployed. In contrast, satisfaction … benefit of employment. Finally, we examine subjective assessments of income and leisure as potential predictors for job take …
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