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Marriage and consumption insurance : what s love got to do with it?

Hess, Gregory D. - 2001

This paper explores the role of marriage when markets are incomplete so that individuals cannot diversify their … love. Is love more important to a lasting marriage than economic compatibility? To answer this question, I develop a simple … model where rational individuals meet, enjoy the economic and non-pecuniary benefits of marriage (i.e. love), and then must …

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Frontier history and gender norms in the United States

Bazzi, Samuel; Brodeur, Abel; Fiszbein, Martín; … - 2024

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

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Domestic abuse : instrumental violence and economics incentives

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut - 2011

A large fraction of domestically abused women report that their partners interfere with their participation in education and employment. As of yet, mainstream economics has not dealt in any systematic way with this phenomenon and its implications for welfare policy. This paper puts forward a...

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Taxation and labor supply of married couples across countries : a macroeconomic analysis

Bick, Alexander; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2017

We document contemporaneous differences in the aggregate labor supply of married couples across 17 European countries and the US. Based on a model of joint household decision making, we quantify the contribution of international differences in non-linear labor income taxes and consumption taxes...

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The cost of gender identity norms : evidence from a spouse tax credit

Giommoni, Tommaso; Rubolino, Enrico - 2024

This paper studies the impact of tax incentives on economic behavior within the household. We focus on an Italian tax policy that grants a large tax credit to main earners if their spouses, designated as “dependent spouses” by the tax law, report income below a certain threshold. Combining a...

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Till taxes keep us apart? : the impact of the marriage tax on the marriage rate

Myohl, Nadia - 2022

joint income taxation of married couples on the marriage rate in Switzerland, where tax differentials between married and … simulated instrumental variable approach, I find a negative impact of joint income taxation on the marriage rate for couples …

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Female empowerment and male backlash

Guarnieri, Eleonora; Rainer, Helmut - 2018

Do policies and institutions that promote women's economic empowerment have a long-term impact on intimate partner violence? We address this question by exploiting a natural experiment of history in Cameroon. From the end of WWI until 1961, the western territories of today's Cameroon were...

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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 allocation of time between child rearing and the labor market. They can choose the non-cooperative outside option or cooperate by reaching an agreement of specialization in which...

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Do you really want to share everything? : the wellbeing of work-linked couples

Hennecke, Juliane; Hetschko, Clemens - 2021

Work as well as family life are crucial sources of human wellbeing, which however often interfere. This is especially so if partners work in the same occupation or industry. At the same time, being work-linked may benefit their career success. Still, surprisingly little is known about the...

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When women's work disappears : marriage and fertility decisions in Peru

Mansour, Hani; Medina, Pamela; Velásquez, Andrea - 2023

during this period increased the share of single low-educated people and decreased their marriage rates. There is little … in marriage formation. …

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