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Capital income taxation and household production

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2015

The Atkinson-Stiglitz Theorem and its extensions have been interpreted as implying that capital income should not be taxed. If, as seems reasonable on empirical grounds, we introduce production of household goods with close market substitutes, this conclusion no longer holds. We analyse optimal...

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Parents under stress - evaluating emergency childcare policies during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Germany

Schüller, Simone; Steinberg, Hannah S. - 2021

What are the effects of school and daycare facility closures during the COVID-19 pandemic on parental well-being and parenting behavior? Can emergency childcare policies during a pandemic mitigate increases in parental stress and negative parenting behavior? To answer these questions, this study...

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Population and health policies

Schultz, T. Paul - 2009

The program evaluation literature for population and health policies is in flux, with many disciplines documenting biological and behavioral linkages from fetal development to late life mortality, chronic disease, and disability, though their implications for policy remain uncertain. Both macro-...

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Rotten spouses, family transfers and public goods

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014

We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...

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Modelling the impact of direct and indirect taxes using complementary datasets

Savage, Michael; Callan, Tim - 2015

Comprehensive modelling of the impact of taxes and tax policy options requires data on the impact at micro-level of both direct and indirect taxes. There are, however, limits on the amount of data that can be gathered by any one survey. With some exceptions, most notably the Living Costs and...

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Mechanics of replacing benefit systems with a basic income : comparative results from a microsimulation approach

Browne, James; Immervoll, Herwig - 2017

Recent debates of basic income (BI) proposals shine a useful spotlight on the challenges that traditional forms of income support are increasingly facing, and highlight gaps in social provisions that largely depend on income or employment status. A universal "no questions asked" public transfer...

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Altruism, cooperation, and efficiency : agricultural production in polygynous households

Akresh, Richard; Chen, Joyce J.; Moore, Charity Troyer - 2011

Altruism among family members can, in some cases, inhibit cooperation by increasing the utility that players expect to … as an enforcement mechanism for others' cooperative agreements. -- altruism ; non-cooperative behavior ; household …

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Long-term care and lazy rotten kids

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2013

This paper studies the determination of informal long-term care (family aid) to dependent elderly in a worst case scenario concerning the "harmony" of family relations. Children are purely selfish, and neither side can make credible commitments (which rules out efficient bargaining). The model...

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Unequal bequests

Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - 2015

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...

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A constitutional theory of the family

Cigno, Alessandro (contributor) - 2005

renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The behavioural and policy implications are illustrated by showing the … effects of public pensions and credit rationing. These implications are not much affected by whether altruism is assumed or … ; renegotiation-proofness ; altruism ; fertility ; saving ; transfers ; attention ; pensions ; credit rationing …

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