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Marital matching, economies of scale and intrahousehold allocations

Cherchye, Laurens; Rock, Bram de; Surana, Khushboo; … - 2016

or region of residence) operate on the same marriage market and are characterized by a homogeneous consumption technology … consumption level in case of marriage dissolution or spousal death. …

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Household Behavior and the Marriage Market

Del Boca, Daniela - 2013

: efficiently or inefficiently. Under strong, but standard, assumptions regarding marriage market equilibria, marital sorting … efficient or not. We develop a new likelihood-based metric to compare marriage market fits under the two alternative behavioral …

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An Empirical Analysis of the Time Allocation of Italian Couples

Bloemen, Hans - 2008

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....

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Tax Planning of Married Couples and Intra-Household Income Inequality

Buettner, Thiess - 2020

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...

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Coupling labor supply decisions : an experiment in India

Lowe, Matt; McKelway, Madeline - 2021

Joint household decision-making may be prevented by the incentives of individuals to withhold information or avoid bargaining. We study whether these barriers to joint decision-making keep female labor force participation low in India. In partnership with one of India’s largest carpet...

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For worse? : financial hardships and intra-household resource allocation among Australian couples

Botha, Ferdi; Ribar, David C. - 2020

This paper considers the association between intra-household resource allocation and couple financial hardships in Australia. It develops and estimates a collective household model of expenditures on individual-specific necessities and hardship reporting where each partner has a distinct utility...

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For worse? : financial hardships and intra-household resource allocation among Australian couples

Botha, Ferdi; Ribar, David C. - 2020

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Identifying Non-Cooperative Behavior Among Spouses : Child Outcomes in Migrant-Sending Households

Chen, Joyce J. - 2010

In the presence of asymmetric information, allocations can only be coordinated to the extent that each can be monitored, and household decision-making may not be fully cooperative. Because this information problem is particularly acute when individuals are not co-resident, I examine households...

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Chapter 51 Household Formation and Marriage Markets in Rural Areas

Fafchamps, Marcel; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3187-3247). 2007

This chapter surveys the voluminous literature on household formation and marriage markets in developing countries. We … these factors are particularly important in poor countries, especially in a rural setting. We then focus on marriage, which … polygyny, we introduce bargaining and strategic bequest and discuss their implication for the equilibrium of the marriage …

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Bargaining under threats: the effect of joint custody laws on intimate partner violence

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Nollenberger, Natalia; Roff, … - 2020

We study the effect of a policy change that exogenously shifted bargaining power from mothers to fathers on intimate partner violence. We exploit a quasi-natural experiment based on a series of reforms in Spain that shifted the custody decision from being unilaterally determined by the mother to...

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