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Kinky Choices, Dictators and Split Might: A Non-Cooperative Model for Household Consumption and Labor Supply

Boone, Jan; van der Wiel, Karen; Vermeulen, Frederic - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We therefore model consumption and labor …

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Heterogenous Life-Cycle Profiles, Income Risk and Consumption Inequality

Primiceri, Giorgio E; van Rens, Thijs - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

transitory shocks? The implications for consumption and welfare depend crucially on the answer to this question. We use CEX … repeated cross-section data on consumption and income to decompose idiosyncratic changes in income into predictable life … evolution of consumption and income inequality well and delivers two main results. First, we find that permanent changes in …

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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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Collective Labour Supply: Heterogeneity and Non-Participation

Blundell, Richard William; Chiappori, Pierre-André; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We present identification and estimation results for the 'collective' model of labour supply in which there are discrete choices, censoring of hours and non-participation in employment. We derive the collective restrictions on labour supply functions and contrast them with restrictions implied...

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Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany

Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P; Siedler, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...

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Gender Discrimination: The Role of Males and Per Capita Income

Rahim, Fazeer; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper models gender discrimination in the labor market as originating from bargaining between husbands and wives within the family. The husband-wife household bargains over resource distribution, with each spouse's bargaining power determined by his/her market income. Men are reluctant to...

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Unravelling Secularization: an International Study

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones, personal attributes and marriage variables)...

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Intrafamily Resource Allocations: A Dynamic Model of Birth Weight

del Bono, Emilia; Ermisch, John F; Francesconi, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper estimates a model of dynamic intrahousehold investment behavior which incorporates family fixed effects and child endowment heterogeneity. This framework is applied to large American and British survey data on birth outcomes, with focus on the effects of antenatal parental smoking and...

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Were American Parents Really Selfish? Child Labour in the 19th Century

Bhaskar, Venkataraman; Gupta, Bishnupriya - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

of childrens' income on their own consumption are weak, once child labour is controlled for. …

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Child Care Costs and the Employment Status of Married Australian Mothers

Rammohan, Anu; Whelan, Stephen - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

Using data from the HILDA (Household Income and Labour Dynamics), this paper examines the implications of child care costs on maternal employment status by distinguishing between full-time and part-time work. Our empirical approach uses an ordered probit model taking into account the endogeneity...

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