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Competition for promotion can induce household specialization between equally competitive spouses

Bastani, Spencer; Dickmanns, Lisa; Giebe, Thomas; … - 2022

We analyze equally competitive spouses competing for promotion in their respective workplaces and show that an asymmetric equilibrium featuring household specialization can arise. Examples where the asymmetric equilibrium is welfare-superior to the symmetric equilibrium are highlighted. By...

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A Constitutional Theory of the Family

Cigno, Alessandro - 2005

The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances in which a constitution is renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The...

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Competition for promotion can induce household specialization between equally competitive spouses

Bastani, Spencer; Dickmanns, Lisa; Giebe, Thomas; … - 2022

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On the Optimality of Joint Taxation for Non-Cooperative Couples

Meier, Volker - 2010

We present a non-cooperative model of a family's time allocation between work and a home-produced public good, and examine whether the income tax should apply to couples or individuals. While tax-induced labor supply distortions lead to overprovision of the public good, spouses' failure to...

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Labor Supply, Home Production and Welfare Comparisons

Donni, Olivier - 2021

We consider the collective model of labor supply with marketable domestic production. We first show that, if domestic production is mistakenly ignored, the "collective" indirect utilities that are retrieved from observed behavior will be unbiased if and only if the profit function is additive....

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On the Optimality of Joint Taxation with Household Production

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup - 2021

The existing literature suggests that the concern for economic efficiency calls for individual taxation of married couples with a higher rate on the primary earner. This paper reconsiders the choice of tax unit in the Becker model of household production, which includes previous analyses as...

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Household Production, Full Consumption and the Costs of Children

Apps, Patricia F.; Rees, Ray - 2021

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...

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Intra-Family Time Allocation to Housework : French Evidence

Anxo, Dominique - 2008

of housework time. Consistent with both bargaining and specialization models of the family, we find that the greater the … husband's share of labor income, the lower his share of housework time; the greater the wife's market hours, the lower his … housework time, but the larger his share of housework time. Treating market work as endogenous substantially lowers the size of …

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Intrahousehold Inequality

Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2014

Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element of the distribution of welfare that can vary dramatically depending on overall environmental and economic factors. Thus, measures of inequality that ignore intra household...

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Equality-efficiency trade-off within French and German couples : a comparative experimental study ; conference paper

Couprie, Hélène; Beblo, Miriam; Beninger, Denis; … - 2013

We present the results of an experiment that measures social preferences within couples in a context where intra-household pay-off inequality can be reduced at the cost of diminishing household income. We measure social norms regarding this efficiency-equality trade-off and implement a...

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