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The economics of family and group decisions
Lee, Jungmin - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003549626
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Gender power, fertility, and family policy
Kemnitz, Alexander; Thum, Marcel - 2012
show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for … overcome the fertility bias. -- fertility ; family policy ; household allocation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533964
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Gender power, fertility, and family policy
Kemnitz, Alexander; Thum, Marcel - 2013
show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for … overcome the fertility bias. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009762721
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Gender power, fertility, and family policy : conference paper
Kemnitz, Alexander; Thum, Marcel - 2013
show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for … overcome the fertility bias. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342106
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Chapter 5. Population, Poverty, and the Natural Environment
Dasgupta, Partha - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 1, …, (pp. 191-247). 2003
associated with fertility behavior and use of the local natural-resource base are identified. Three are shown to be pronatalist … that one of the externalities may even provide an invidious link between fertility decisions and the use of the local … natural-resource base. The fourth type of externality is used to develop a theory of fertility transitions in the contemporary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023940
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How to avoid a pension crisis : a question of intelligent system design
Cigno, Alessandro - 2009
Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936144
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Household relational contracts for marriage, fertility and divorce
Fahn, Matthias; Rees, Ray - 2014
among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010363961
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010422205
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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 … bear on fertility choice, and we point out promising future directions for this line of research. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010458481
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How to avoid a pension crisis : a question of intelligent system design
Cigno, Alessandro - 2009
and money in their upbringing. -- Pension reform ; implicit pension taxes and subsidies ; child benefits ; fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003820014