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Old money, the nouveau riche and Brunhilde's marriage dilemma : conference paper

Bronsert, Anne-Kathrin; Glazer, Amihai; Konrad, Kai A. - 2014

This paper proposes a screening approach to explain why dating is associated with purchasing status products and conspicuous gift giving. A potential bride searching for a husband may seek to screen candidates whose income is only partially observable. Taking into account that she also bears...

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Economics of the family : marriage, children, and human capital ; a conference report of the National Bureau of Economic Research

Schultz, Theodore William (contributor); … - 1974

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Beyond Ramsey : gender-based taxation with non-cooperative couples ; conference paper

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2013

This paper explores the implications of gender-based income taxation in a non-cooperative model of a couple's time allocation between market work and providing a household public good. We find that the optimal structure of differential taxation by gender is solely determined by spouses' relative...

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Mediation : boon or bane for the stability and efficiency of marriage? : conference paper

Rundshagen, Bianca - 2013

that additionally may prevent divorces by demonstrating the potential for Pareto-improvements within marriage to the …

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The lost generation in Europe? : the economic crisis and starting a family ; conference paper

Schaffner, Sandra - 2014 - Preliminary results

fertile phase experience high unemployment rates. Based on these facts we investigate how marriage and fertility decisions in … likely to marry when they are unemployed during recession. Although we find effects on marriage we cannot observe any effects …

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Inequality and the marriage gap : conference paper

Siassi, Nawid - 2014

Marriage is one of the most important determinants of economic prosperity, yet most existing theories of inequality … large marriage gap: married people earn on average 27 percent more income, and they hold 34 percent more net worth. To … bequests are key to explaining the marriage gap in earnings and wealth. A policy experiment of moving from joint tax filing for …

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Experimental evidence on bargaining power within couples : conference paper

Beninger, Denis; Beblo, Miriam - 2014

We conducted an experiment on the nature of income sharing within 95 established couples in Germany. In a first step, the partners revealed their individual preferences by making consumption choices independently. In a second step, decisions were taken jointly over five different rounds with...

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Social norms or income taxation : what drives couple's labor supply? ; experimental evidence ; conference paper

Schröder, Melanie; Schmitt, Norma; Mantei, Britta; … - 2014 - This version: February 2014, Preliminary version

We investigate the determinants of couples labor supply within an experimental setting. On the one hand, we are interested in the effect of taxes on couples labor supply, but on the other hand we focus on factors beyond purely economic incentives: the role of the social norm of a male...

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How do married women respond when their husbands lose their jobs? : evidence from Turkey during the recent crisis ; conference paper

Ayhan, Sinem H. - 2014

This paper analyzes the labor supply response of married women to their husbands' job losses (Added Worker Effect) due to the recent economic crisis in Turkey. Identification is achieved by exploiting the exogenous variation in the output of male-dominated sectors hard-hit by the crisis....

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Special issue in honour of Leslie Whittington : The "state and the family: balancing the intended and unintended consequences of public polices"

Alm, James (contributor); Whittington, Leslie Ann (honouree) - 2004

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