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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509239
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985414
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Domestic abuse : instrumental violence and economics incentives
Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009388372
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950968
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011840779
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Colonialism and female empowerment : a two-sided legacy
Guarnieri, Eleonora; Rainer, Helmut - In: Journal of development economics 151 (2021), pp. 1-20
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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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Unemployment and Domestic Violence: Theory and Evidence
Rainer, Helmut; Anderberg, Dan; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - 2013
which (i) marriage provides insurance against employment risk through the pooling of resources, and (ii) a woman does not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329333
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Political socialization in flux? Linking family non-intactness during childhood to adult civic engagement
Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2013
Over the last several decades, there has been a widespread decrease in civic engagement coinciding with a breakdown in traditional family structures in many countries throughout the developed world. According to Putnam in Bowling alone (2000), however, none of the major declines in civic...
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