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Gender bias in tax systems based on household income
Andrienko, Jurij; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014
The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441692
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Couples' perceptions of the division of household and child care tasks : are there differences between sociodemographic groups?
Frank, Kristyn; Frenette, Marc - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497065
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Intra-household time allocation : gender differences in caring for children
García Mainar, Inmaculada; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2009
This paper analyses the intra-household allocation of time to show gender differences in childcare. In the framework of … characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), with data being drawn from the European Community … countries. -- Childcare ; gender differences ; intra-household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003847151
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Intra-household time allocation : gender differences in caring for children
García Mainar, Inmaculada; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2009
This paper analyses the intra-household allocation of time to show gender differences in childcare. In the framework of … characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), with data being drawn from the European Community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635271
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Household production, full consumption and the costs of children
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2000
Recent work criticises both the logic and relevance of the theoretical basis of the approach to estimating the costs of raising children adopted in much of the economics literature. This tends to be restricted purely to models in which the household members consume market goods with given...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335243
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Time allocation of daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law in India : the role of education as bargaining power
Bhattacharya, Leena - 2023
state of residence. Overall, the results suggest that policies that aim to increase women's education and promote gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014432205
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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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Household production, full consumption and the costs of children
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2000
Recent work criticises both the logic and relevance of the theoretical basis of the approach to estimating the costs of raising children adopted in much of the economics literature. This tends to be restricted purely to models in which the household members consume market goods with given...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001506058
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The effect of child care on family structure : theory and evidence
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Borck, Rainald - 2012
This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of children and spousal specialization in home...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009514787
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Household models : an historical perspective
Apps, Patricia (contributor); Rees, Ray (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003624695