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Competition for promotion can induce household specialization between equally competitive spouses
Bastani, Spencer; Dickmanns, Lisa; Giebe, Thomas; … - 2022
We analyze equally competitive spouses competing for promotion in their respective workplaces and show that an asymmetric equilibrium featuring household specialization can arise. Examples where the asymmetric equilibrium is welfare-superior to the symmetric equilibrium are highlighted. By...
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The parental co-immunization hypothesis
Portela, Miguel; Schweinzer, Paul - 2013
We attempt to answer a simple empirical question: does having children make a parent live longer? The hypothesis we offer is that a parentś immune system is refreshed by a childś infections at a time when their own protection starts wearing thin. With the boosted immune system, the parent has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010210732
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Education, gender, and family formation
Virtanen, Hanna; Silliman, Mikko; Kuuppelomäki, Tiina; … - 2024
We study the effect of educational attainment on family formation using regression discontinuity designs generated by … set of results using survey data. These suggest that the positive association between men’s education and family formation …
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Family job search, wage bargainings, and optimal unemployment insurance
Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - 2010
The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in the labor market. We show that equilibrium entails wage dispersion among equally productive risk-averse workers. Marital status as well as spousal labor market status matter...
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Taxing children: the re-distributive role of child benefits - revisited
Blumḳin, Tomer; Margaliyot, Yoram; Tsadḳah, Efrayim - 2010
In this paper, we challenge the conventional wisdom that due to the negative correlation between family size and … earning ability, family size can be used as a 'tagging' device, and calls for subsidizing children (via child allowances) to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940106
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Nineteenth century stature and family size : binding constraint or productive labor force?
Carson, Scott Alan - 2010
neglected area in historical stature studies is the relationship between stature and family size, and statures are documented … here to be positively related with family size. The relationship between material inequality and heath is the subject of …-spatial relationship between the environment and stature. -- family economics ; stature ; wealth ; inequality ; insolation ; vitamin D …
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Is recipiency of disability pension hereditary?
Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Vaage, Kjell - 2012
specifications, including family fixed effects. -- disability ; intergenerational correlations ; siblings fixed effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533966
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Retirement in non-cooperative and cooperative families
Hernæs, Erik; Jia, Zhiyang; Strøm, Steinar - 2001
Models that allow for non-cooperative as well as cooperative behavior of families are estimated on data from Norway in 1993 and 1994. The husband is eligible for early retirement while the wife is not. The models aim at explaining labor supply behavior of married couples the first twelve months...
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The political choice of social long term care transfers when family gives time and money
De Donder, Philippe; Leroux, Marie-Louise - 2015
parents have an intrinsic preference for help in time by family members. We first show that low (resp., high) income children … income class may give no family help at all, and its elderly members would be the main beneficiaries of the introduction of … most countries. First, social transfers are dominated by help in time by the family when the intrinsic preference of …
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Leaving home with a partner
Bentolila, Samuel; Méndez Martínez, Ildefonso; … - 2015
Leaving the parental home is often a decision made together by two people. In this paper we present a theoretical model analyzing moving out as a joint decision and then test its implications using a new dataset of university graduates collected in the southern Spanish region of Murcia in...
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