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Intra-Household Work Timing: The Effect on Joint Activities and the Demand for Child Care
Klaveren, Chris Van; Brink, Henriette Maassen van den; … - CESifo - 2011
communicate on the timing of their work. The main findings are that couples with children create less overlap in their work times … and this effect is more pronounced the younger the children. We find evidence for a togetherness preference of spouses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020094
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079132
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079147
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A Public Good Version of the Collective Household Model: An Empirical Approach with an Application to British Household Data
Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Brink, … - CESifo - 2008
production is influenced by family size, but this does not hold for the male; (5) Both the male and the female have a backward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406246
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Three Family Policies to Reconcile Fertility and Labor Supply
Fenge, Robert; Stadler, Lisa - CESifo - 2014
In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children … in balancing family and work than parental leave payments. The welfare analysis shows that the introduction of subsidies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877797
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Household Models: An Historical Perspective
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2007
This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to suggest that the literature’s neglect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005249452