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How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country

Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labour below its efficient level (if positive), and...

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Education and Optimal Dynamic Taxation

Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

education wedges in this setting analytically and numerically, using a calibrated example. We present ways to implement the … given out to agents during education. These repayment plans are contingent on loan size and income and capture the history … dependence of the labor wedges. Applying the model to US-data and a binary education decision (graduating from college or not) we …

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Charitable Bequests and Wealth at Death

Atkinson, Tony; Backus, Peter G.; Micklewright, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Charitable bequests are a major source of income for charities but surprisingly little is known about them. The aim of this paper is to propose a multi-stage framework for analysing the bequest decision and to examine the evidence for Great Britain provided by new data on estates. The novelty of...

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Volunteering and the State

Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual's decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with macroeconomic and political variables for OECD member countries. Empirically we identify three...

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You Can’t Be Happier than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce

Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...

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Household Bargaining and the Design of Couples' Income Taxation

Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie; Maldonado, Dario; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper studies the design of couples' income taxation when consumption and labor supply decisions within the couple are made by maximizing a weighted sum of the spouses' utilities; bargaining weights are given but specific to each couple. Information structure and labor supply decisions...

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Relational Contracts, Taxation and the Household

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to make precise the idea that because households are engaged in a repeated non-cooperative game, Pareto efficient outcomes can be supported by self interest, given the specific pattern of specialisation and exchange which exists in the...

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Designing Optimal Taxes with a Microeconometric Model of Household Labour Supply

Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The purpose of this paper is to present an exercise where we identify optimal income tax rules under the constraint of fixed tax revenue. To this end, we estimate a microeconomic model with 78 parameters that capture heterogeneity in consumption-leisure preferences for singles and couples as...

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Accounting for Family Background when Designing Optimal Income Taxes: A Microeconometric Simulation Analysis

Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

uses parental education as a measure of exogenous circumstances. An empirical microeconometric model of labour supply in …

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Normative Evaluation of Tax Policies: From Households to Individuals

Bargain, Olivier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We analyze the impact on French couples of a tax policy change - the introduction of a family tax credit - using jointly a collective model of household labor supply and a tax-benefit microsimulation program. In a first step, we suggest a larger interpretation of labor supply behaviors which...

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