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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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The rise in per-capita labor over the last 30 years is difficult to explain in a standard macroeconomic model because rising wages of women should have lead to a large rise in husband's leisure. This paper argues that home production and bargaining are both essential for understanding these...
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labour supply decision of both female and male in a household. This paper analyses how an exogenous increase in fertility … differences in the cost of childcare rather than the characteristics of occupation or household bargaining power …
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labour market, and tend to delay the birth of their first child. All these trends are likely to influence intra-household … relations and consequently the family decision process. To investigate this matter, we estimate a household collective labour …
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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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