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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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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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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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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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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/10011872066
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Deterrence or Backlash? Arrests and the Dynamics of Domestic Violence
Amaral, Sofia; Dahl, Gordon B.; Endl-Geyer, Victoria; … - 2023
There is a vigorous debate on whether arrests for domestic violence (DV) will deter future abuse or create a retaliatory backlash. We study how arrests affect the dynamics of DV using administrative data for over 124,000 DV emergency calls (999 calls) for West Midlands, the second most populous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290115
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Deterrence or Backlash? Arrests and the Dynamics of Domestic Violence
Amaral, Sofia; Dahl, Gordon B.; Endl-Geyer, Victoria; … - 2023
There is a vigorous debate on whether arrests for domestic violence (DV) will deter future abuse or create a retaliatory backlash. We study how arrests affect the dynamics of DV using administrative data for over 124,000 DV emergency calls (999 calls) for West Midlands, the second most populous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296600
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Kindergeld
Rainer, Helmut; Bauernschuster, Stefan; Danzer, Natalia; … - 2013
Im Rahmen der vom Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ) und vom Bundesministerium der Finanzen (BMF) in Auftrag gegebenen Gesamtevaluation von zentralen ehe- und familienbezogenen Leistungen wurden in der vorliegenden Studie die Auswirkungen der familienpolitischen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698414
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Kindergeld : im Auftrag der Geschäftsstelle Gesamtevaluation der ehe- und familienbezogenen Leistungen in Deutschland
Rainer, Helmut; Bauernschuster, Stefan; Danzer, Natalia; … - 2013 - März 2012
As part of an overall evaluation of key marriage and family-related policies conducted on behalf of the Federal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011843745