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Household Production, Full Consumption and the Costs of Children
Apps, Patricia F.; Rees, Ray - 2021
Recent work criticises both the logic and relevance of the theoretical basis of the approach to estimating the costs of raising children adopted in much of the economics literature. This tends to be restricted purely to models in which the household members consume market goods with given...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321271
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Home production of childcare and labour supply decisions in a collective household model
Turon, Hélène - 2019
This paper proposes a dynamic structural model of labour market and childcare choices for couples within a collective … model of decision making. We formalise explicitly the need for childcare as a function of the age structure of the children …-produced childcare to household childcare needs is considered to be a public good within the household, for which preferences are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979076
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The Multitasking of Household Production
Kalenkoski, Charlene M. - 2010
The standard household production model does not incorporate multitasking, although time-diary data reveal that individuals regularly multitask. We formulate a model where time spent in child care can be sole-tasked or multitasked with other household production activities. This model implies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146171
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Agency in family policy : a survey
Cigno, Alessandro - 2009
Given that young children are under the control of their parents, if the government has an interest in either the welfare or the productivity of the former, it has no option but to act through the latter. Parents are, in the ordinary sense of the word, the government’s agents. They are agents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850519
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Raising juveniles
Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik T. - 2010
This paper investigates how families make decisions about the education of juveniles. The decision problem is analyzed in three variations: a 'decentralized' scheme, in which the parents control the purse-strings, but the children dispose of their time as they see fit; a 'hierarchical' scheme,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003985749
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Intrahousehold decision making and fertility
Doepke, Matthias; Kindermann, Fabian - 2014
The economic theory of fertility choice builds predominantly on the unitary model of the household, in which there is a single household utility function and potential intra-household disagreement is abstracted from. Empirical evidence suggests, however, that many (potential) mothers and fathers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010458481
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Political economy of redistribution between traditional and modern families
Meier, Volker; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2019
We analyse a model in which families may either be “traditional” single-earner with caring for the child at home or “modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like market care subsidies vs. cash for care....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230973
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Political economy of redistribution between traditional and modern families
Meier, Volker; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2019
We analyse a model in which families may either be “traditional” single-earner with caring for the child at home or “modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like market care subsidies vs. cash for care....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024392
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Optimal taxation and the household
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2016
This paper analyses optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. It models the interaction between wage rates and variation in child care prices and productivities as determinants of across-household heterogeneity in second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451043
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The effect of child care on family structure : theory and evidence
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Borck, Rainald - 2012
This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of children and spousal specialization in home...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009514787