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Marriage, cohabitation and commitment
Iyigun, Murat - 2009
This paper combines partner matching with an intra-household allocation model where couples decide if they want to marry or cohabitate. Marriage encourages but does not ensure a higher level of spousal commitment, which in turn can generate a larger marital surplus. Individuals' marital...
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Bargaining and specialization in marriage
Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2005
Can households make efficient choices? The fact that cohabitation and marriage are partnerships for joint production and consumption imply that their gains are highest when household members cooperate. At the same time, empirical findings suggest that spousal specialization and labor force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003095433
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Building the family nest : pre-marital investments, marriage markets and spousal allocations
Iyigun, Murat (contributor); Walsh, Randall P. (contributor) - 2005
We develop a model of the household in which spousal incomes are determined by pre-marital investments, the marriage market is characterized by assortative matching, and endogenously-determined sharing rules form the basis of intra-household allocations. By incorporating pre-marital investments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003115139
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Image versus information : changing societal norms and optimal privacy
Ali, S. Nageeb; Bénabou, Roland - 2016
reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public …
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Can reputation discipline the gig economy? : experimental evidence from an online labor market
Benson, Alan; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Umyarov, Akhmed - 2015
In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in … reputation, we find that good-reputation employers attract work of the same quality but at twice the rate as bad-reputation … employers. This is the first clean, field evidence on the value of employer reputation. It can serve as collateral against …
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Improving the allocation of spots in child care facilities for toddlers in Germany : a mechanism design approach
Carlsson, Sissa; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2015
The undersupply of spots in German daycare facilities for toddlers challenges parents' possibilities to work. To ease the situation, the government implemented a new law entitling every child between ages one and three to daycare supervision for about four hours per day. Nevertheless, the...
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Competing with asking prices
Lester, Benjamin; Visschers, Ludo; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2013
In many markets, sellers advertise their good with an asking price. This is a price at which the seller is willing to take his good off the market and trade immediately, though it is understood that a buyer can submit an offer below the asking price and that this offer may be accepted if the...
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Strategic ignorance in bargaining
Conrads, Julian; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2011
In his classic article "An Essay on Bargaining" Schelling (1956) argues that ignorance might actually be strength rather than weakness. We test and confirm Schelling's conjecture in a simple take-it-or-leave bargaining experiment where the proposer can choose between two possible offers. Option...
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Search, screening and sorting
Cai, Xiaoming; Gautier, Pieter; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2021
We investigate the effect of search frictions on labor market sorting by constructing a model which is in line with recent evidence that employers collect a pool of applicants before interviewing a subset of them. In this environment, we derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for sorting...
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Competitive search with private information : can price signal quality?
Albrecht, James W.; Cai, Xiaoming; Gautier, Pieter; … - 2024
This paper considers competitive search equilibrium in a market for a good whose quality differs across sellers. Each seller knows the quality of the good that he or she is offering for sale, but buyers cannot observe quality directly. We thus have a "market for lemons" with competitive search...
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