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the household is an important factor that should be considered when analyzing household decisions …
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Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan (2015) document that in the U.S. there is a sharp discontinuity to the right of 1/2 in the distribution of households according to the share of income earned by the wife, which they attribute to the existence of a gender identity norm postulating that a wife should...
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population in the household then examine the determinants of the decision to supply labour. The fraction of home …-produced childcare to household childcare needs is considered to be a public good within the household, for which preferences are … of the choice of home childcare vs. labour supply. We are able to quantify each household's sensitivity to potential …
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wage differences, variation in prices of bought-in inputs into household production in the form of child care, and domestic … productivity differences as determinants of across-household heterogeneity in second earner labour supply. The analysis highlights … specification of household time use widens the set of cases in which individual taxation is welfare-superior to joint taxation …
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This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the …
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a fair distribution of relative working hours within the household. Using three nationally-representative data, we show …
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smoothing household consumption in environments characterized by income volatility. We use comparable individual data on about 1 …
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Norwegian household data for 1994. For any given tax rule, the estimated model can be used to simulate the choices made by …
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Dutch DNB Household Survey. We conduct a nonparametric analysis that avoids the distortive impact of an erroneously …
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, collective model of the household in which spouses have the ability to commit to an ex ante efficient allocation. The results are … consistent with a model of limited commitment in which a shock to household resources can alter bargaining power. We discuss the …
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