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All in the family or public? : law and appropriative costs as determinants of ownership structure

Castillo C., Ramón; Skaperdas, Stergios - 2003

We examine how the legal protection of outside shareholders and the appropriative costs that they induce influence the incentives for private firms to go public. A higher degree of protection of shareholders can increase the appropriative costs associated with the conflict between managers and...

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The effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories

Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020

We study the effect of institutional childcare on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening of childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare facilities in the year of birth of the first child...

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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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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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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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Transfers within a three generations family : when the rotten dids turn into altruistic parents

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014

We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the old may leave a bequest to their children. Within each...

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Self-enforcing family rules, marriage and the (non)neutrality of public intervention

Cigno, Alessandro; Komura, Mizuki; Luporini, Annalisa - 2016

We demonstrate that the notion of a "family constitution" (self-enforcing, renegotiation-proof family norm) requiring … family constitutions. …

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Marriage market equilibrium, qualifications, and ability

Anderberg, Dan; Bagger, Jesper; Bhaskar, Varsha; … - 2019

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using the 1972 UK Raising of the School-Leaving Age (RoSLA) legislation as a natural experiment that induced a sudden, large shift in the distribution of academic qualifications in...

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Are economic preferences shaped by the family context? : the impact of birth order and siblings' sex composition on economic preferences

Detlefsen, Lena; Friedl, Andreas; Lima de Miranda, Katharina - 2018 - This version: 9 November 2018

The formation of economic preferences in childhood and adolescence has long-term consequences for life-time outcomes. We study in an experiment with 525 teenagers how both birth order and siblings' sex composition affect risk, time and social preferences. We find that second born children are...

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Culture of origin, parenting, and household labor supply

Brilli, Ylenia; Moriconi, Simone - 2024

parents inside the family. We use data from the World Value Survey to construct a country-specific measure of the value …

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