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Household Relational Contracts for Marriage, Fertility and Divorce

Fahn, Matthias; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2011

, how many children to have and subsequently whether to stay together or separate. We make precise the idea that cooperation … in a household can be supported by self interest. Since the costs of raising children are unequally distributed among … partners, there is a potential conflict between individually optimal and efficient, i.e. surplus maximizing, decisions. Side …

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Risk and Saving in Two-Person Households: More Scope for Precautionary Saving

Apps, Patricia; Andrienko, Yuri; Rees, Ray - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2012

The existing literature suggests that when the saving decision of two-earner households under risk is analysed, standard results on the existence of precautionary saving no longer apply: precautionary saving is obtained if and only if very stringent conditions hold. This paper shows that when...

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Gender, Comparative Advantage and Labour Market Activity in Immigrant Families

Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Crossley, Thomas - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2001

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Improving the Modeling of Couples' Labour Supply

Breunig, Robert; Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Gong, Xiaodong - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

We study the work hours of Australian couples, using a neoclassical labour-supply model in which couples choose from a small, realistic set of possible wife-husband working hour combinations. We introduce three improvements to this standard model. First, we allow partners' preferences about...

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Globalization, Gender and Development: The Effect of Parental Labor Supply on Child Schooling

Marchand, Beyza Ural; Rees, Ray; Riezman, Raymond - CESifo - 2011

Tariff reductions have gender-specific effects on the labor market that change the relative bargaining power within … affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 …

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Optimal Taxation, Child Care and Models of the Household

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2012

This paper presents for the .rst time the properties of optimal piece-wise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction of second earner wage di¤erences, variation in prices of bought-in...

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Capital Income Taxation and the Mirrlees Review

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2012

The Mirrlees Review of the UK tax system, together with its companion volume of research papers, can be expected to influence future discussions of tax reform. Indeed, this can already be recognised in the Henry Review. As far as income taxation is concerned, the most substantive recommendation...

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Life Cycle Time Allocation and Saving in an Imperfect Capital Market

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2004

This paper combines income and expenditure with time use data to provide a unique picture of the time paths of labour supplies, saving and full consumption for two-adult households over the life cycle. These data are used to test the life cycle model presented in the paper, at the core of which...

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The Taxation of Couples

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

This paper is concerned with the question of how couples should be taxed. One reason for the importance of this issue is simply that the overwhelming majority of individuals live in households formed around couples, and so it could be argued that empirically, this is the single most important...

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Household Saving and Full Consumpyion Over the Life Cycle.

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2001

This paper extends the standard model of the life cycle consumption, saving and labor supply in a number of direction.

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