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Whatever happened to the domestic division of labour? A theoretical analysis of the effects of legislation on marriage, fertility and participation.

Cigno, Alessandro - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2008

We derive the behavioural implications of legislation on the subject of marriage, divorce, de-facto unions, domestic violence, and labour market discrimination, within a game-theoretical frame- work. The predictions are consistent with two empirical obser- vations. One is that, while the...

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The Economics of Marriage

Cigno, Alessandro - Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) - 2011

In a separate-property jurisdiction, marriage may induce domestic cooperation, and enhance efficiency in the production of children, because it may lend credibility to the prospective main earner's promise to compensate the main childcarer when the children will no longer be economically...

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What's the Use of Marriage?

Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional...

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The Effect of Alimony Reform on Married Women's Labor Supply: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer Louise - 2021

Reforms that reduce alimony can affect married couples in two different ways. First, reduced alimony lowers the … bargaining power of the payee, usually the wife. Second, reduced alimony lowers the incentives of wives to engage in the … alimony is due, at least in part, to differences in their preferences and costs for children. The estimated effects are larger …

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The effect of alimony reform on married women's labor supply: evidence from the American Time Use Survey

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer - 2021

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Changing the Rules Midway: The Impact of Granting Alimony Rights on Existing and Newly-Formed Partnerships

Lafortune, Jeanne; Chiappori, Pierre-Andre; Iyigun, Murat; … - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas … - 2012

The paper analyzes the effect of a reform granting alimony rights to cohabiting couples in Canada, exploiting the fact … analysis, based on a collective household model with a matching framework, predicts that changes in alimony laws would affect … right to petition for alimony led women to lower their labor force participation. These results, however, do not hold | and …

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Should divorce be easier or harder? : the evidence, though weak, favors legal, easy, unilateral divorce

González, Libertad - 2014

Many countries have enacted legislation over the past few decades making divorce easier. Some countries have legalized divorce where it had previously been banned, and many have eased the conditions required for a divorce, such as allowing unilateral divorce (both spouses do not have to agree on...

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The cost of gender identity norms : evidence from a spouse tax credit

Giommoni, Tommaso; Rubolino, Enrico - 2024

This paper studies the impact of tax incentives on economic behavior within the household. We focus on an Italian tax policy that grants a large tax credit to main earners if their spouses, designated as “dependent spouses” by the tax law, report income below a certain threshold. Combining a...

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A Dynamic Decision Model of Marriage, Childbearing, and Labor Force Participation of Women in Japan

Ueda, Atsuko - EconWPA - 2000

This paper empirically examines the life-time joint decision problem of marriage, childbearing, and labor force participation for women in Japan, motivated by the recent decrease in the number of marriages and the total fertility rate. Using the 1993-95 Japanese Panel Surveys of Consumption, the...

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Reforming Family Taxation in Germany - Labor Supply vs. Insurance Effects

Fehr, Hans; Kallweit, Manuel; Kindermann, Fabian - 2013

The present paper quantifies the economic consequences of eliminating the system of income splitting in Germany. We apply a dynamic simulation model with overlapping generations where single and married agents have to decide on labor supply and homework facing income and lifespan risk. The...

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