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Intergenerational transmission of skills during childhood and optimal public policy

Casarico, Alessandra; Micheletto, Luca; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2011

The paper characterizes the optimal tax policy and the optimal quality of day care services in a OLG model with warm-glow altruism where parental choices over child care arrangements affect the probability that the child becomes a high-skilled adult in a type-specific way. With respect to...

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Taxation and parental time allocation under different assumptions on altruism

Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2014

In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation. We investigate whether an increase in labor supply brought about by a reduction in taxes is always associated with a reduction in parental time devoted to children, which...

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Technology, market structure and the gains from trade

Impullitti, Giammario; Licandro, Omar; Rendahl, Pontus - 2017

We study the gains from trade in an economy with oligopolistic competition, firm heterogeneity, and innovation …. In addition to markups, selection and innovation provide additional channels through which the trade-induced effect on … channels; we find that innovation plays a small but non-negligible role, while the main component is equally split between the …

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Technology, market structure and the gains from trade

Impullitti, Giammario; Licandro, Omar; Rendahl, Pontus - 2021

We study the gains from trade in a model with oligopolistic competition, heterogeneous firms and innovation, and … concentration contributes substantially to the gains from trade, mostly via its stimulating effect on innovation. Sizeable gains …

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