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Gender Bias in Tax Systems Based on Household Income

Andrienko, Yuri; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model of the household with young children present, that this assumption is not … the number and ages of children requires us to look for other explanations, and we argue that these can be found in the …

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Gender Bias in Tax Systems Based on Household Income

Andrienko, Yuri; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014

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Risk and Saving in Two-Person Households: More Scope for Precautionary Saving

Apps, Patricia; Andrienko, Yuri; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The existing literature suggests that when the saving decision of two-earner households under risk is analysed, standard results on the existence of precautionary saving no longer apply: precautionary saving is obtained if and only if very stringent conditions hold. This paper shows that when...

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Risk and saving in two-person households: More scope for precautionary saving

Apps, Patricia; Andrienko, Yuri; Rees, Ray - 2012

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Relational contracts, taxation and the household

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2009

This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to make precise the idea that because households are engaged in a repeated non-cooperative game, Pareto efficient outcomes can be supported by self interest, given the specific pattern of specialisation and exchange which exists in the...

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Relational Contracts, Taxation and the Household

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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Household Production, Full Consumption and the Costs of Children

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2000

, we estimate specialized versions of the model for families with two children and use the results to derive the intra-family … raising children adopted in much of the economics literature. This tends to be restricted purely to models in which the … household members consume market goods with given household income. The ?costs of children? are perceived essentially as market …

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Household Production, Full Consumption and the Costs of Children

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

, we estimate specialized versions of the model for families with two children and use the results to derive the intra-family … raising children adopted in much of the economics literature. This tends to be restricted purely to models in which the … household members consume market goods with given household income. The "costs of children" are perceived essentially as market …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763794

The Effects of In-Work Benefit Reform in Britain on Couples: Theory and Evidence

Francesconi, Marco; van der Klaauw, Wilbert H; Rainer, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

children. They were more likely to remain in the labour force and had higher rates at which they entered it. While more likely …

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Cooperative Household Models

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We set out a general framework for cooperative household models, based on Samuelson’s idea of a household welfare function, but extending it to incorporate the key insight from Nash bargaining models - the idea that the household’s preference ordering over the utility profiles of its members...

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