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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985414

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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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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Daddy months

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2014

We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...

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On the Optimality of Joint Taxation for Non-Cooperative Couples

Meier, Volker - 2010

We present a non-cooperative model of a family's time allocation between work and a home-produced public good, and examine whether the income tax should apply to couples or individuals. While tax-induced labor supply distortions lead to overprovision of the public good, spouses' failure to...

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Beyond Ramsey : gender-based taxation with non-cooperative couples ; conference paper

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2013

This paper explores the implications of gender-based income taxation in a non-cooperative model of a couple's time allocation between market work and providing a household public good. We find that the optimal structure of differential taxation by gender is solely determined by spouses' relative...

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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

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...

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