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both spouses maximize a household utility function. We assume that paid labor and housework are the endogenous choice … variables and furthermore consider household production. Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish women differ from Dutch women because … they value (joint) household production more in their utility function. Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish men, on the other …
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Using the data on maintenance expenditures and self-assessed house value, I separate the measure of individual housing stock and house prices, and use these data for testing whether nondurable consumption and housing are characterized by intratemporal nonseparability in households’...
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In public good games, voluntary contributions tend to start off high and decline as the game is repeated. If high contributors are matched, however, contributions tend to stay high. We propose a formalization predicting that high contributors will self-select into groups committed to charitable...
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We study the redistributive effects of inflation combining administrative bank data with an information provision experiment during an episode of historic inflation. On average, households are well-informed about prevailing inflation and are concerned about its impact on their wealth; yet, while...
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This paper revisits the added worker effect. Using bivariate random-effects probit estimation on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners' unemployment with an increase in labor market participation, which also leads to an increase in their...
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The literature on household behavior contains hardly any empirical research on the withinhousehold distributional …
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Using UK longitudinal data on dual-earner couples, this paper estimates a model of intrahousehold housework decisions … use housework arrangements to compensate for differentials in labor market involvement, women end up performing a … substantially larger share of housework. This is not due to specialization, rather social norms play a key role. Exposure to more …
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asymmetric equilibrium featuring household specialization can arise. Examples where the asymmetric equilibrium is welfare …
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We consider a non-cooperative model of the household, in which the husband and wife decide on parental leave and the … increase in father’s childcare and housework time as much as 2-3 hours per day. …
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taxation ; household production ; public goods …
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