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Optimal taxation, marriage, home production, and family labor supply
Gayle, George-Levi; Shephard, Andrew - 2016 - Revised July 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539777
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The heterogeneous effects of social assistance and unemployment insurance : evidence from a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2023
by age, education, wealth, sex and household composition. In aggregate, social assistance dominates unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014373654
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Estimating intra-household sharing from time-use data
Arduini, Francesca - 2023
Households do not share resources equally between their members, so estimating intra-household inequality is crucial to … household level. A growing literature proposes methods to estimate sharing from individual-level demand data for a single … structural household model and identification results in several directions. Using private leisure as the assignable good, I show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014381448
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OLS estimation of the intra-household distribution of expenditure
Lechene, Valérie; Pendakur, Krishna; Wolf, Alex - 2021
We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each … household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583605
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Poverty and intra-household resource allocation in Surinamese households
Khadan, Jeetendra; Strobl, Eric; Tuffour, Theophiline - 2020
This paper examines the allocation of resources of poverty rates within households in Suriname. To this end we employ a bargaining model estimation framework that allows one to identify the allocation of resources across adult and children males and females. Our results using the Suriname...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153189
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Breaking the marriage trap : unilateral divorce and its effects on labor supply of married women
Alonso-Borrego, César; Pomares, Gema - 2023 - This version: April, 19, 2023
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The consequences of miscarriage on parental investments
Bütikofer, Aline; Coy, Deidre; Doyle, Orla; Ginja, Rita - 2024
Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian registry data, we exploit the random nature of single, early miscarriages to examine the impact of pregnancy loss on parental investment and family outcomes. We find that pregnancy...
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Fertility shocks and equilibrium marriage-rate dynamics
Knowles, John; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517988
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Taxation, aggregates and the household
Guner, Nezih (contributor); Kaygusuz, Remzi (contributor);  … - 2008
We evaluate reforms to the U.S. tax system in a dynamic setup with heterogeneous married and single households, and with an operative extensive margin in labor supply. We restrict our model with observations on gender and skill premia, labor force participation of married females across skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003722991
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To invest or not to invest in sanitation : the role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power
Augsburg, Britta; Malde, Bansi; Olorenshaw, Harriet; … - 2021
how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We … show that – as long as the wife is involved in household decision-making – the intra-household differences in perceptions …. The estimated effects are consistent with the predictions of a model of intra-household decision-making. …
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