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How families matter for understanding economic inequality
Santos, Cézar; Tertilt, Michele - 2023
In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in principle be an amplifier or mitigator of economic inequality. We describe three channels on how families shape economic inequality. First, how people match to form families matters...
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Does it pay to say "I do"? : marriage bonuses and penalties across the EU
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; … - 2021
show substantial bonuses for married couples and four exhibit marriage penalties. On a micro level, we find that these … marriage bonuses/penalties differ substantially across household types and income. From a policy point of view, our results … suggest that the abolishment of marriage-related tax-benefit components in countries with marriage bonuses would leave some …
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Does it pay to say "I do"? : marriage bonuses and penalties across the EU
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; … - 2021
show substantial bonuses for married couples and four exhibit marriage penalties. On a micro level, we find that these … marriage bonuses/penalties differ substantially across household types and income. From a policy point of view, our results … suggest that the abolishment of marriage-related tax-benefit components in countries with marriage bonuses would leave some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599547
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Stable income, stable family
Lindo, Jason M.; Regmi, Krishna; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2022
We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy that leverages state-level changes in maximum benefits over time and comparisons across workers who have been laid off and those that have not been laid off. The results indicate...
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Husbands' and wives' diverging perceptions on who decides
Schwefer, Maximilian; Poutvaara, Panu - 2018
An emerging literature highlights the importance of empowering women. Female decision-making power is typically measured by surveying only one partner, but the few studies surveying both have documented large differences in perceptions. We analyze these perceptions and their consequences, using...
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Education in a marriage market model without commitment
Hyee, Raphaela - 2011
This paper develops a model that combines intra-household bargaining with competition on the marriage market to analyse … income. They have the option of unilateral divorce and subsequent remarriage. Through this channel, the marriage market … marriage market into a significantly larger share of household income. Hence, men's incentive to invest in education decreases …
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Tax Planning of Married Couples and Intra-Household Income Inequality
Buettner, Thiess - 2020
This paper examines tax planning of married couples under separate taxation. A theoretical analysis uses a family decision-model with a household public good to show that the secondary earner might veto against tax planning if the realization of tax savings increases intra-household income...
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Gender identity and relative income within households : evidence from Sweden
Eriksson, Karin Hederos; Stenberg, Anders - 2015
Bertrand et al. (2015) show that among married couples in the US, the distribution of the share of the household income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp drop just to the right of .50. They argue that this drop is consistent with a social norm prescribing that a man should earn more than his...
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Ethnicity, Marriage and Family Income
Matz, Julia Anna - 2013
developing countries by investigating the motivation for intra-ethnicity marriage in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, the … technology. Furthermore, the framework suggests that the probability of marriage within the same ethnic group is positively … related to the size of the group due to frictions in the marriage market: Search costs for co-ethnic spouses are larger the …
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Income assistance, marriage, and child poverty : an assessment of the Family Security Act
Ortigueira, Salvador; Siassi, Nawid - 2021
stated objectives of increasing marriage rates and cutting child poverty at no cost to the government. The assessment is …, and marital status. We find that while the plan would be highly effective at increasing marriage, it would reduce child …
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