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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 population in the household then examine the...

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Home Production of Childcare and Labour Supply Decisions in a Collective Household Model

Turon, Hélène - 2019

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Dynamic effects of educational assortative mating on labor supply

Gihleb, Rania; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2016

In 30% of young American couples the wife is more educated than the husband. Those women are characterized by a substantially higher employment (all else equal), which in turn amplifies income inequality across couples. Using NLSY79, we formulate and structurally estimate a dynamic life-cycle...

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Commitments and the marital match: the effect of alimony reform on assortative matching

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer - 2021

This paper examines the effects of reforms that reduced alimony on matching in the marriage market. Recent literature … assortative matching, as women forgo specialization which may not be compensated upon divorce. Using state-level data on alimony … characteristics of newlyweds, we find that alimony reform increased measures of spousal covariance in education. Our results indicate …

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What's the use of marriage?

Cigno, Alessandro - 2009

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional...

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Reforming family taxation in Germany : labor supply vs. insurance effects

Fehr, Hans; Kallweit, Manuel; Kindermann, Fabian - 2013

The present paper quantifies the economic consequences of eliminating the system of income splitting in Germany. We apply a dynamic simulation model with overlapping generations where single and married agents have to decide on labor supply and homework facing income and lifespan risk. The...

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Reforming family taxation in Germany : labor supply vs. insurance effects

Fehr, Hans; Kallweit, Manuel; Kindermann, Fabian - 2013

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Quantifying Okun’s leaky bucket : the case of progressive childcare subsidies

Koll, David; Sachs, Dominik; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian; … - 2024

We formalize and estimate the dynamic marginal efficiency cost of redistribution (MECR) in the spirit of Okun’s “leaky bucket” to compare the MECR of an income-contingent childcare subsidy program and of the income-contingent tax and transfer schedule. We set up a dynamic structural model...

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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...

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What’s the use of marriage?

Cigno, Alessandro - 2009

cooperation. -- Gender ; cohabitation ; marriage ; divorce ; alimony ; matrimonial property ; fertility ; division of labour …

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