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Marriage, Housework and Fairness
Widmalm, Frida - 1998
I explore the effects of a preference for fairness in the division of housework between two spouses in two different … process and the degree of fairness consideration matter for policy outcomes and discuss three policy measures in relation to …
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Marriage, housework and fairness
Widmalm, Frida - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000996409
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Marriage and Housework
Borra, Cristina - 2017
housework time between single and married individuals is causal and how much is due to selection. Using longitudinal data from … explain about half of the observed differences in housework documented in the cross-sectional data. There remains a genuine … two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957469
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Marriage and housework
Borra, Cristina; Browning, Martin James; Sevilla, Almudena - 2017
housework time between single and married individuals is causal and how much is due to selection. Using longitudinal data from … explain about half of the observed differences in housework documented in the cross-sectional data. There remains a genuine … two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647542
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Marriage and Housework
Borra, Cristina; Browning, Martin; Sevilla, Almudena - 2020
This paper provides insights into the gains of forming a couple by estimating how much of the difference in housework … about half of the observed differences in housework documented in the cross-sectional data. Further ancillary evidence … labour. There remains a genuine half-an-hour increase per week in housework time for each partner, with women specializing in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014102144
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Household behavior and the marriage market
Del Boca, Daniela; Flinn, Christopher J. - 2013
There is some controversy in the field of household economics regarding the efficiency of household decisions. We make the point that a flexible specification of spousal preferences and the household production technology precludes the possibility of using revealed preference data on household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201289
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Mediation : boon or bane for the stability and efficiency of marriage? : conference paper
Rundshagen, Bianca - 2013
Using non-cooperative game theory the effects of mediation on the divorce rate and on the utility of the spouses are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341096
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Raising juveniles
Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik T. - 2010
This paper investigates how families make decisions about the education of juveniles. The decision problem is analyzed in three variations: a 'decentralized' scheme, in which the parents control the purse-strings, but the children dispose of their time as they see fit; a 'hierarchical' scheme,...
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What’s the use of marriage?
Cigno, Alessandro - 2009
We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional...
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On the optimality of joint taxation with household production
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup - 2001
The existing literature suggests that the concern for economic efficiency calls for individual taxation of married couples with a higher rate on the primary earner. This paper reconsiders the choice of tax unit in the Becker model of household production, which includes previous analyses as...
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