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Does female empowerment promote economic development?

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - 2011

Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind of...

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Modelling the employment and wage outcomes of spouses: is she outearning him?

Bloemen, Hans G.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2008

This paper is focused on couple households where the wife is the main earner. The economic literature on this subject is particularly scant. According to our estimates, the wife was the main earner in one of every six couple households in France in 2002, including wife-sole-earner households....

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Why do Indian Children Work, and is it Bad for Them?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C. - 2000

The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural households. The complex interactions uncovered by the...

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

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

Altruism among family members can, in some cases, inhibit cooperation by increasing the utility that players expect to receive in a non-cooperative equilibrium. To test this, we examine agricultural productivity in polygynous households in West Africa. We find that cooperation is greater -...

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An empirical analysis of the time allocation of Italian couples: are Italian men irresponsive?

Bloemen, Hans G.; Pasqua, Silvia; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2008

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....

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Collective Female Labour Supply : Theory and Application

Donni, Olivier - 2005

In this paper, we deal with female labour supply in the collective framework. We study married couples and start from the empirical observation that the husband?s labour supply is generally fixed at full-time. We then show that, in this case, structural elements of the decision process, such as...

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Marriage, cohabitation and commitment

Iyigun, Murat - 2009

marry or cohabitate. Marriage encourages but does not ensure a higher level of spousal commitment, which in turn can … prefer to act with commitment in marriage are matched with someone who has the same preference. In such an equilibrium, the …-matching equilibria in which a partner who is willing to act with commitment in marriage is matched with someone who is not. In all such …

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Substitution effects in parental investments

Brandt, Loren; Siow, Aloysius; Wang, Hui - 2009

The paper estimates how parents adjust bride-prices and land divisions to compensate their sons for differences in their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a son receives one yuan less in schooling investment than his brother, he will obtain 0.7 yuan more...

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Cooperative Models in Action : Simulation of a Nash-Bargaining Model of Household Labor Supply with Taxation

Bargain, Olivier; Moreau, Nicolas - 2005

Several theoretical contributions, starting with McElroy and Horney (1981) and Manser and Brown (1980), have suggested to model household behavior as a Nash-bargaining game. Since then, very few attempts have been made to operationalize cooperative models of household labor supply for policy...

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An assignment model with divorce and remarriage

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Iyigun, Murat; Weiss, Yoram - 2008

marriage which exactly offsets their higher prospective divorce settlement. When remarriage is possible, more complex effects … could occur: the reform typically alters divorce probabilities and it may affect the total surplus generated by marriage …

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