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Does custody law affect family behavior in and out of marriage?

Böheim, René; Francesconi, Marco; Halla, Martin - 2012

We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using individual-level administrative data, covering the entire population. We also use unique data obtained from court records to analyze the effect on post-divorce outcomes. Our estimates...

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Population policies, demographic structural changes, and the Chinese household saving puzzle

Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis Tao; Zhang, Junsen - 2012

Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility...

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United but (un-)equal: Human capital, probability of divorce and the marriage contract

Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre; Roeder, Kerstin - 2012

This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk. Symmetry in education (both spouses receive an equal...

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Mobility across multiple generations: The iterated regression fallacy

Stuhler, Jan - 2012

Conflicting views about the degree of long-run mobility across multiple generations persist because direct empirical evidence is scarce. Predictions are instead routinely derived by iteration of intergenerational measures, a procedure which implies high long-run mobility even when...

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Risk-taking-neutral background risk

Franke, Guenter; Schlesinger, Harris; Stapleton, Richard C. - 2013

strategy, due to Mossin (1968a). We also use this methodology to analyze investment behavior in the presence of an income tax …

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Poverty and welfare measurement on the basis of prospect theory

Jäntti, Markus; Kanbur, Ravi; Nyyssölä, Milla; … - 2013

-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity - aspects emphasized in Prospect Theory - to social welfare measurement. We …

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Reforming an asymmetric union: On the virtues of dual tier capital taxation

Haufler, Andreas; Lülfesmann, Christoph - 2013

The tax competition for mobile capital, in particular the reluctance of small countries to agree on measures of tax … of capital taxation, where the asymmetric member states of a union choose a common, federal tax rate in the first stage …, and then non-cooperatively set local tax rates in the second stage. We show that this mechanism effectively reduces …

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Downtown curbside parking capacity

Arnott, Richard J.; Inci, Eren; Rowse, John - 2013

In downtown areas, what proportion of curbside should be allocated to parking? In contrast to most previous work on the economics of parking, this paper focuses on optimal curbside parking capacity in both first-best (where pricing is efficient) and second-best (where pricing is inefficient)...

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Price equalization does not imply free trade

Mutreja, Piyusha; Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond; … - 2013

In this paper we show that price equalization alone is not sufficient to determine the barriers to international trade. There are many barrier combinations that deliver price equalization, but each combination implies a different volume of trade. We demonstrate this first theoretically in a...

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Offshoring domestic jobs

Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo; Wrona, Jens - 2013

We set up a two-country general equilibrium model, in which heterogeneous firms from one country (the source country) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or...

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