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Maternity Leave
Regmi, Krishna; Wang, Le - 2022
Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a national basis. This chapter reviews various types of...
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Can Child Marriage Law Affect Attitudes and Behaviour in the Absence of Strict Enforcement? Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, M Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2022
In developing countries, one in four girls is married before turning 18, with adverse consequences for their own and their children's human capital. In this paper, we investigate whether laws can affect attitudes and behaviour towards child marriage - in a context in which the laws are not...
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Widowhood and Consumption of Private Assignable Goods: The Role of Socio-Economic Status, Rainfall Shocks and Historical Institutions
Bandyopadhyay, Sutirtha; Maity, Bipasha - 2022
We study how weather shocks interact with cultural norms biased against women to affect female poverty within the household. Using expenditure on female assignable clothing per adult woman as a measure of women's intra-household access to consumption, we document that spending on female...
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Health Economics of Genetic Distance
Jelnov, Pavel - 2020
In this note, I address the trade-off between children’s health and parental preference toward similarity with children. In my model, better-off individuals mate genetically close partners and then use wealth to treat their children’s health problems, caused by inbreeding depression. As a...
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Bitter Sugar: Slavery and the Black Family
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2020
We empirically assess the effect of historical slavery on the African American family structure. Our hypothesis is that female single headship among blacks is more likely to emerge in association not with slavery per se, but with slavery in sugar plantations, since the extreme demographic and...
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A Sharing Model of the Household: Explaining the Deaton-Paxson Paradox and Computing Household Indifference Scales
Gutierrez, Federico H. - 2018
This paper presents a new model of the household that is able to explain a variety of consumption patterns that existing models cannot describe, most notably, those associated with the Deaton and Paxson (1998) paradox. The most distinctive feature of this model is the presence of common-pool...
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The lock-in effect of marriage: Work incentives after saying, "Yes, I do."
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; … - 2022
In this paper, we use EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model of the European Union, to investigate the impact … of marriage-related tax-benefit instruments on the labour supply of married couples. For each married partner, we … estimate their individual marginal effective tax rate and net replacement rate before and after marriage. We show that the …
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Does it pay to say "I do"? Marriage bonuses and penalties across the EU
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; … - 2021
microsimulation methods. Our paper highlights important differences across EU countries' tax-benefit systems, where seven countries … suggest that the abolishment of marriage-related tax-benefit components in countries with marriage bonuses would leave some …
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Reducing the income tax burden for households with children: An assessment of the child tax credit reform in Austria
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; Varga, Janos - 2020
This paper analyses the impact of the implementation of a child tax credit in Austria in 2019, not only on micro, but … DSGE model of the European Commission, with the micro-based results for the implicit tax rate, the non-participation and … the labour supply elasticities. We show that the child tax credit reform in Austria reduces inequality, lowers the poverty …
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Microsimulation Analysis of Optimal Income Tax Reforms. An Application to New Zealand
Creedy, John; Gemmell, Norman; Hérault, Nicolas; Mok, Penny - 2018
This paper examines the optimal direction of marginal income tax reform in the context of New Zealand, which recently … reduced its top marginal income tax rate to one of the lowest in the OECD. A behavioural microsimulation model is used, in … labour supply responses to tax changes, in which a high degree of population heterogeneity is represented along with all the …
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