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Gender bias in tax systems based on household income
Andrienko, Jurij; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014
The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model...
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The determinants of housework time : boosting the efficiency of household production could have large economic effects
Stratton, Leslie S. - 2020
The time household members in industrialized countries spend on housework and shopping is substantial, amounting on … driven in part by the gender differential in wages. Efforts to reduce the gender wage gap and alter gendered norms of … behavior should reduce the gender bias in household production time and reduce inefficiency in home production. Policymakers …
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Taxes, subsidies, and gender gaps in hours and wages
Duval-Hernández, Robert; Fang, Lei; Ngai, Liwa Rachel - 2021
a negative cross-country correlation between gender ratios in market hours and wages. We find that market hours by women … and the size of the service sector that produces close substitutes to home production are important for the gender … differences in market hours across countries. We quantify the role played by taxes and subsidies to family care on the two gender …
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Gender Bias in Tax Systems Based on Household Income
Andrienko, Yuri - 2014
The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042974
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Gender Bias in Tax Systems Based on Household Income
Andrienko, Yuri - 2015
The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031694
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Predicting the effects of a sugar sweetened beverage tax in a household production model
Bordignon, Massimo; Xiang, Di; Zhan, Lue - 2018
We study the impact of a hypothetical tax on sugar - sweetened beverages (SSBs) on the US households' nutrients purchase, welfare change, and health benefit. Differently from the traditional approach, Food at Home(FAH) is here defined as a "home" good instead than a market good and consumers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011914153
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A reconsideration of the sugar sweetened beverage tax in a household production model
Xiang, Di; Zhan, Lue; Bordignon, Massimo - 2018
We study the impact of a hypothetical tax on sugar - sweetened beverages (SSBs) on the US households' nutrients purchase, welfare change, and health benefit. Differently from the traditional approach, Food at Home(FAH) is here defined as a "home" good instead than a market good and consumers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011862897
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The Economics of Family Taxation : Optimal Tax Issues from a Household Economics Perspective
Balestrino, Alessandro - 2023
Chapter 1. Standard optimal taxation with single agents: what it is and what to use in its place -- Chapter 2. Optimal taxation in the presence of household production -- Chapter 3. Income taxation with two-person households -- Chapter 4. Income taxation and public spending with two-person...
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The EITC and maternal time use : more time working and less time with kids?
Bastian, Jacob; Lochner, Lance - 2020
Parents spend considerable time and resources investing in their children's development. Given evidence that the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) affects maternal labor supply, we investigate how the EITC affects a broad array of time-use activities, focusing on the amount and nature of time...
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The earned income tax credit and maternal time use: more time working and less time with kids?
Bastian, Jacob; Lochner, Lance - 2020
Parents spend considerable sums investing in their children's development, with their own time among the most important forms of investment. Given well-documented effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on maternal labor supply, it is natural to ask how the EITC affects other time...
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