Familienunterstützende Dienstleistungen können dazu beitragen, die Vereinbarkeit von Beruf, Familie und Hausarbeit zu …Services provided in private households can contribute towards making familylife and household chores more compatible …

family businesses and co-working of spouses, creates a similar discontinuity. Using linked employer-employee data from …

This paper examines tax planning of married couples under separate taxation. A theoretical analysis uses a family … decision-model with a household public good to show that the secondary earner might veto against tax planning if the … realization of tax savings increases intra-household income inequality. The empirical analysis exploits a specific feature of the …

Eligibility and benefits for anti-poverty income transfers in the U.S. are based on both the means and the household … arrangement, and marital status. We find that the U.S. anti-poverty policy distorts the cohabitation/marriage decision of single …

This paper examines how traditional marriage market institutions affect households' financial decisions. We study how … bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn … gender and heterogeneity in dowry amounts across marriage markets, we find that the prospect of paying higher dowry increases …