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Fertility, Female Labor Supply, and Family Policy
Fehr, Hans - 2010
The present paper develops a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and endogenous fertility in order to analyze the interaction between public policy and household labor supply and fertility decisions. The model's benchmark equilibrium reflects the current family policy as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135268
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Fertility, Female Labor Supply and Family Policy
Fehr, Hans - 2010
The present paper develops a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and endogenous fertility in order to analyze the interaction between public policy and household labor supply and fertility decisions. The model's benchmark equilibrium reflects the current family policy as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139605
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Fertility, Female Labor Supply, and Family Policy
Fehr, Hans - 2011
The present paper develops a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and endogenous fertility in order to analyze the interaction between public policy and household labor supply and fertility decisions. The model's benchmark equilibrium reflects the current family policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124970
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Intrahousehold Inequality
Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2014
Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element of the distribution of welfare that can vary dramatically depending on overall environmental and economic factors. Thus, measures of inequality that ignore intra household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053293
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Fertility, female labor supply, and family policy
Fehr, Hans; Ujhelyiova, Daniela - 2011
The present paper develops a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and endogenous fertility in order to analyze the interaction between public policy and household labor supply and fertility decisions. The model's benchmark equilibrium reflects the current family policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009127637
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Dowry and Wife's Welfare : A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
Zhang, Junsen; Chan, William M. - 1999
marriage. If that were the only reason, we would not have observed the coexistence of dowries and bride-prices. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014190060
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Fertility, female labor supply, and family policy
Fehr, Hans; Ujhelyiova, Daniela - 2010
The present paper develops a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and endogenous fertility in order to analyze the interaction between public policy and household labor supply and fertility decisions. The model's benchmark equilibrium reflects the current family policy as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826234
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One-child policy, marriage distortion, and welfare loss
Huang, Wei; Zhou, Yi - 2015
marriage distortion, and both depend solely on the corresponding reduced-form elasticities. Our calculations suggest that the … total welfare loss is around 4.9 percent of yearly household income, with marriage distortion contributing 17 percent of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388332
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One-Child Policy, Marriage Distortion, and Welfare Loss
Huang, Wei - 2015
marriage distortion, and both depend solely on the corresponding reduced-form elasticities. Our calculations suggest that the … total welfare loss is around 4.9 percent of yearly household income, with marriage distortion contributing 17 percent of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011174
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Income transfers, welfare and family decisions
Andaluz Funcia, Joaquín (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper studies the effects of different income transfers on individual welfare, in both marriage and divorce … losses derived from the marriage. We have also found that the donor of an intergenerational transfer can behave in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003595983