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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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interactions, players who make their choices fast and intuitively, relying on social heuristics, choose stag more often than other … Heuristics Hypothesis (Rand et al., 2012) applied to stag hunt interactions. …
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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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developments in the labor market and changes in the structure and preferences of the family. The former include changes in …-market contracts and tendencies toward an insider-outsider divide in the labor market. Changes in family structure include a rise in … female labor-force participation, a decline in family stability, more variation in individual life cycles and increased …
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“modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like …
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We study the importance of the extended family - the dynasty - for the persistence in inequality across generations. We … extended family relative to the parents increases. …
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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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We present a dynamic lifecycle model of women's choices with respect to partnership status, labour supply and fertility when a male partner's true tendency for abusive behaviour is unobserved. The model is estimated by the method of simulated moments using longitudinal data from the Avon...
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The present paper quantifies the importance of family insurance for the analysis of social security. We therefore … be almost exclusively attributed to the insurance role of the family with respect to longevity risk. Since a married …
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