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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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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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792209

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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Uncertain paternity, mating market failure, and the institution of marriage

Bethmann, Dirk (contributor); Kvasnicka, Michael (contributor) - 2007

This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of marriage. Based on a model of reproduction, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating market failure that arises from incomplete information...

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Paternal uncertainty and the economics of mating, marriage, and parental investment in children

Bethmann, Dirk (contributor); Kvasnicka, Michael (contributor) - 2005

We develop a theoretical model of mating behavior and parental investment in children under asymmetry in kin recognition between men and women that provides a microfoundation for the institution of marriage. In the model, men and women derive utility from consumption and reproductive success,...

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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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