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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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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

We define a class of risk-taking-neutral (RTN) background risks. These background risks have the property that they will not alter decisions made with respect to another risk, for individuals with HARA utility. If we wish to compare a decision made with and without some exogenous background...

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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 coordination, has ongoing political and economic fallouts within Europe. We analyse the effects of introducing a two tier structure of capital taxation, where the asymmetric member...

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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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Relative consumption and tax evasion

Goerke, Laszlo - 2013

Relative consumption effects or status concerns that feature jealousy (in the sense of Dupor and Liu, AER 2003) boost … consumption expenditure. If consumption is financed by labour income, such status considerations increase labour supply and, hence … of preferences that the tax base effect generally dominates. Consequently, relative consumption effects tend to reduce …

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