Social norms are influenced by the technological environment that a society faces. Behavioral modes reflect purposive decision making by individuals, given the environment they live in. Thus, as technology changes, so might social norms. There were big changes in social norms during the 20th...

This paper studies studies the effects of alternative taxation rules when salient demographic features of modern economies are explicitly considered. We build a equilibrium framework in which the formation and dissolution of households, household labor supply decisions at the intensive and...