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How important are mental and physical health in career and family choices?
Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - 2024
We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly incorporates mental and physical health. Correlated mental and physical health production functions are simultaneously estimated, including the endogenous decisions to seek...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014582273
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870355
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979076
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476887
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703134
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231591
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792209
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003633544
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323030