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Family-specific investments and divorce : a theory of dynamically inconsistent household behavior

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Roeder, Kerstin - 2016

-specific capital over time. At any given point in time, the gains to continued marriage depend on the accumulated stock of this capital …, sophisticated couples - but not naive ones - may choose to enter marriage on terms which make divorce more costly to obtain. Third …-restoring earnings tax is genderneutral and fairly flat with respect to marriage duration. The optimal divorce tax is an inverted …

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Family-Specific Investments and Divorce : A Theory of Dynamically Inconsistent Household Behavior

Anderberg, Dan - 2016

-specific capital over time. At any given point in time, the gains to continued marriage depend on the accumulated stock of this capital …, sophisticated couples – but not naive ones – may choose to enter marriage on terms which make divorce more costly to obtain. Third …-restoring earnings tax is genderneutral and fairly flat with respect to marriage duration. The optimal divorce tax is an inverted …

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Should We Write Prenuptial Contracts?

Rainer, Helmut - 2017

A successful marriage requires for both parties to make investments in their relationship and marital assets. How such …

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Domestic Abuse : Instrumental Violence and Economic Incentives

Anderberg, Dan - 2011

A large fraction of domestically abused women report that their partners interfere with their participation in education and employment. As of yet, mainstream economics has not dealt in any systematic way with this phenomenon and its implications for welfare policy. This paper puts forward a...

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Domestic abuse : instrumental violence and economics incentives

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Female empowerment and male backlash

Guarnieri, Eleonora; Rainer, Helmut - 2018

Do policies and institutions that promote women's economic empowerment have a long-term impact on intimate partner violence? We address this question by exploiting a natural experiment of history in Cameroon. From the end of WWI until 1961, the western territories of today's Cameroon were...

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Gender Discrimination and Efficiency in Marriage : The Bargaining Family Under Scrutiny

Rainer, Helmut - 2017

maintained throughout a marriage relationship is highest when men and women face equal opportunities in labor markets …

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Family-specific investments and divorce with dynamically inconsistent households : marital contracts and policy

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Roeder, Kerstin - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 148 (2018), pp. 199-225

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Assortative matching in labor and marriage markets

Schulz, Bastian - 2017

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

Francesconi, Marco; Rainer, Helmut; Klaauw, Wilbert van der - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper examines the effects of the Working Families´ Tax Credit (WFTC) on couples inBritain. We develop a simple model of household decisions which explicitly accounts for therole played by the tax and benefit system. Its main implications are then tested using paneldata from the British...

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