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Maternity benefits and marital stability after birth : evidence from the Soviet Baltic republics
Brainerd, Elizabeth; Malkova, Olga - 2023
Can a policy intervention in the stressful first year after a birth affect marital stability? We examine this question using a large expansion in maternity benefits in 1982 in the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The program provided partially paid leave until the child's first...
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Until Taxes Do Us Part : Tax Penalties or Bonuses and the Marriage Decision
Barigozzi, Francesca - 2017
The tax regimes applied to couples in many countries including the US, France, and Germany imply either a marriage … penalty or a marriage bonus. We study how they affect the decision to get married by considering two potential spouses who … play a marriage proposal game. At the end of the game they may get married, live together without formal marriage, or split …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943699
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Until Taxes Do Us Part : Tax Penalties or Bonuses and the Marriage Decision
Barigozzi, Francesca - 2017
The tax regimes applied to couples in many countries including the US, France, and Germany imply either a marriage … penalty or a marriage bonus. We study how they affect the decision to get married by considering two potential spouses who … play a marriage proposal game. At the end of the game they may get married, live together without formal marriage, or split …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944940
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Until Taxes Do Us Part : Tax Penalties or Bonuses and the Marriage Decision
Barigozzi, Francesca - 2018
The tax regimes applied to couples in many countries including the US, France, and Germany imply either a marriage … penalty or a marriage bonus. We study how they affect the decision to get married by considering two potential spouses who … play a marriage proposal game. At the end of the game they may get married, live together without formal marriage, or split …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930603
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Family Labor Supply, Taxation and Saving in an Imperfect Capital Market
Apps, Patricia F. - 2010
This paper combines income and expenditure with time use data to provide a unique picture of the labour supplies, household production, saving and consumption decisions of two-adult households over a life cycle defined in terms of the presence and ages of children. The study also draws on data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143854
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British tax credit simplification, the intra-household distribution of income and family consumption
Fisher, Paul - 2014
The UK Government enacted simplification of its tax credit system in 2003. An inter- esting consequence of the reform is that tax credit payments were split between partners in couples, causing a rare wallet to purse transfer. This paper presents evidence on the effects of the reform on family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010254730
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Stable income, stable family
Lindo, Jason M.; Regmi, Krishna; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2022
We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy that leverages state-level changes in maximum benefits over time and comparisons across workers who have been laid off and those that have not been laid off. The results indicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187890
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Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Couples Across Countries : A Macroeconomic Analysis
Bick, Alexander - 2017
We document contemporaneous differences in the aggregate labor supply of married couples across 17 European countries and the US. Based on a model of joint household decision making, we quantify the contribution of international differences in non-linear labor income taxes and consumption taxes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962113
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Evidence of the Earned Income Tax Credit Marriage Penalty Relief
Adireksombat, Kampon - 2010
The passage of the 2001 legislation that contains marriage-penalty-relief provisions renews interest in whether the … Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) influences the marriage decision. Using a sample of cohabiting women with children from the … marriage incentives associated with the EITC expansion for married couples in 2001 and examine whether the changes in the EITC …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012715437
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Taxation and labor supply of married couples across countries : a macroeconomic analysis
Bick, Alexander; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2017
We document contemporaneous differences in the aggregate labor supply of married couples across 17 European countries and the US. Based on a model of joint household decision making, we quantify the contribution of international differences in non-linear labor income taxes and consumption taxes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602475