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Coupling labor supply decisions : an experiment in India

Lowe, Matt; McKelway, Madeline - 2021

Joint household decision-making may be prevented by the incentives of individuals to withhold information or avoid bargaining. We study whether these barriers to joint decision-making keep female labor force participation low in India. In partnership with one of India’s largest carpet...

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Beyond Ramsey : gender-based taxation with non-cooperative couples

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2012

This paper explores the implications of gender-based income taxation in a non- cooperative model of a couple's time … by gender is solely determined by spouses' relative marginal rates of substitution between the public household good and … sharp contrast to previous models of gender-based taxation in which households select Pareto efficient allocations …

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What stayers do? : capital endowments and on-farm transitions in Rural China

Wang, Hao; Fidrmuc, Jan; Luo, Qi; Luo, Mingzhong - 2018

While much research on China has focused on rural to urban migration and transitions of rural households away from agriculture, little is known about the changes within the rural agricultural sector. Yet, the agricultural sector continues to account for a large share of employment. We study the...

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Valuing the time of the self-employed

Agness, Daniel; Baseler, Travis; Chassang, Sylvain; … - 2022

People’s value for their own time is a key input in evaluating public policies: evaluations should account for time taken away from work or leisure as a result of policy. Using rich choice data collected from farming households in western Kenya, we show that households exhibit non-transitive...

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On the optimality of joint taxation for non-cooperative couples

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2010

We present a non-cooperative model of a family's time allocation between work and a home-produced public good, and examine whether the income tax should apply to couples or individuals. While tax-induced labor supply distortions lead to overprovision of the public good, spouses' failure to...

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The impact of paternity leave on long-term father involvement

Rege, Mari; Solli, Ingeborg Foldøy - 2010

Using Norwegian registry data we investigate how paternity leave affects fathers' long-term earnings. In 1993 Norway introduced a paternity quota of the paid parental leave. We estimate a difference-in-differences model which exploits differences in fathers' exposure to the paternity quota. Our...

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Collective labor supply of native Dutch and immigrant households in the Netherlands

Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Maassen … - 2009

We estimate a collective time allocation model, where Dutch, Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish households behave as if both spouses maximize a household utility function. We assume that paid labor and housework are the endogenous choice variables and furthermore consider household production....

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On the optimality of joint taxation with household production

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup - 2001

The existing literature suggests that the concern for economic efficiency calls for individual taxation of married couples with a higher rate on the primary earner. This paper reconsiders the choice of tax unit in the Becker model of household production, which includes previous analyses as...

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Home with mom : the effects of stay-at-home parents on children's long-run educational outcomes

Bettinger, Eric; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rege, Mari - 2013

In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents' incentives to stay home with children under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long-run educational outcomes of the older siblings. Using...

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Daddy months

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2014

We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...

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