-restoring earnings tax is genderneutral and fairly flat with respect to marriage duration. The optimal divorce tax is an inverted …-U function of marriage duration, reaches its maximum when children are in their teens, and declines thereafter. We use our … standard models of household behavior. Examples include: marriage contracts that serve as barriers to hasty divorces (e …

negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …

unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … duration distribution, among others. Our analysis shows that "excess" occupational mobility due to workers’ changing career …

. Within each two-person household, externalities from the partnerś commodity consumption and unpriced actions are allowed …. We investigate competitive market outcomes with an endogenous household structure in which no individual and no man …

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 …

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

related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height …, single women have lower BMIs than women in other household relationships. While causal mechanisms may have changed over time …, there is a positive relationship between BMIs and household size. …

episodes between 1950 and 2008 among 138 countries, and then examine the phases of decline and their duration. In some … institutions precede crises and, interestingly, positive reforms occur thereafter. Strong institutions shorten the duration of …