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Coupling labor supply decisions : an experiment in India

Lowe, Matt; McKelway, Madeline - 2021

Joint household decision-making may be prevented by the incentives of individuals to withhold information or avoid … predicts that both information and discussion should raise enrollment, and nearly all intra-household experts we surveyed gave … by as much as 50%. We sketch an alternative model in which interventions that make household decision-making more joint …

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Retirement in non-cooperative and cooperative families

Hernæs, Erik; Jia, Zhiyang; Strøm, Steinar - 2001

Models that allow for non-cooperative as well as cooperative behavior of families are estimated on data from Norway in 1993 and 1994. The husband is eligible for early retirement while the wife is not. The models aim at explaining labor supply behavior of married couples the first twelve months...

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Gender norms and income misreporting within households

Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2018

We revisit the prominent finding that women's incomes are disproportionally often observed just below the income of their partner. So far, this bunching has been explained by couple formation or couples' labor market decisions. We propose an additional mechanism: income misreporting in surveys....

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Beyond Ramsey : gender-based taxation with non-cooperative couples

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2012

allocation between market work and providing a household public good. We find that the optimal structure of differential taxation … by gender is solely determined by spouses' relative marginal rates of substitution between the public household good and … valuation of the public household good should be taxed at a higher rate. If these valuations are identical, a comparative …

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Does paternity leave promote gender equality within households?

González, Libertad; Zoabi, Hosny - 2021

We consider a non-cooperative model of the household, in which the husband and wife decide on parental leave and the …

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The effect of unfair chances and gender discrimination on labor supply

Gagnon, Nickolas; Bosmans, Kristof; Riedl, Arno - 2020

Labor market opportunities and wages may be unfair for various reasons, and how workers respond to different types of unfairness can have major economic consequences. Using an online labor platform, where workers engage in an individual task for a piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal...

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The impact of gender role norms on mothers' labor supply

Cavapozzi, Danilo; Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2021

household, but has no sizable efficect on hours worked. Most of these effects are driven by less educated women. A new …

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Nineteenth through early 20th century female and male statures within the household

Carson, Scott Alan - 2020

When other measures for material conditions are scarce or unreliable, the use of height is now common to evaluate economic conditions during economic development. However, throughout US economic development, height data by gender have been slow to emerge. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th...

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Are economic preferences shaped by the family context? : the impact of birth order and siblings' sex composition on economic preferences

Detlefsen, Lena; Friedl, Andreas; Lima de Miranda, Katharina - 2018 - This version: 9 November 2018

The formation of economic preferences in childhood and adolescence has long-term consequences for life-time outcomes. We study in an experiment with 525 teenagers how both birth order and siblings' sex composition affect risk, time and social preferences. We find that second born children are...

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Gender norms and labor-supply expectations : experimental evidence from adolescents

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2020

highlight another, more gender-egalitarian, norm towards shared household responsibilities and show that this attenuates the …

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