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Measuring quality of life under spatial frictions

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Bald, Fabian; Roth, Duncan; … - 2024

measurement of quality of life. We find that under a canonical parameterization, mobility frictions—generated by idiosyncratic … tastes and local ties—dominate trade frictions—generated by trade costs and non-tradable services—as a source of measurement … error in the Rosen-Roback framework. This non-classical measurement error leads to a downward bias in es-timates of the …

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Why do buyers pay different prices for comparable products? : evidence from the housing market

Siebert, Ralph; Seiler, Michael J. - 2020

We focus on the housing market and examine why nonlocal home buyers (NLBs) pay 15 percent more for houses than local home buyers (LBs). We estimate a housing demand model that returns heterogeneous willingness to pay parameters for housing attributes. Our results show that NLBs are willing to...

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New characteristics and hedonic price index numbers

Crawford, Ian; Neary, J. Peter - 2019

economically and statistically significant bias in the measurement of prices and real output. We combine theoretical insights from …

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Does coordination among assessing units generate returns to scale? : evidence from New York State

Hou, Yilin; Kim, Yusun; Yinger, John - 2019

This paper explores (dis-)economies of scale in property value assessment via cooperative agreements among small tax assessing jurisdictions without consolidation. New York State incentivizes small neighboring towns to unify their assessment function while maintaining respective tax authority;...

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An up-to-date joint labor supply and child care choice model

Thoresen, Thor Olav; Vattø, Trine Engh - 2017

Norwegian parents of preschool children make their care choices from a completely different choice set compared to what their predecessor did, say, two decades ago. Now, there is essentially only one type of nonparental care, center-based care, and at the parental side fathers take a more...

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Twenty-five hours in a day : on job flexibility and the intrahousehold allocation of time and money

Kesternich, Iris; Vermeulen, Frederic; Wintzéus, Alexander - 2024

Flexible work schedules and telecommuting may help to improve the combination of work and family. This is arguably most important in households with (young) children. An open question is whether job flexibility can increase the well-being of the children, which depends, in part, on the time...

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The influence of child care on maternal health and mother-child interaction

Kröll, Alexandra; Borck, Rainald - 2013

In Germany, formal child care coverage rates have increased markedly over the past few decades. The present paper is concerned with how mothers ́mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not. Furthermore, the effects of formal child care...

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Taxation and parental time allocation under different assumptions on altruism

Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2014

In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation. We investigate whether an increase in labor supply brought about by a reduction in taxes is always associated with a reduction in parental time devoted to children, which...

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Three family policies to reconcile fertility and labor supply

Fenge, Robert; Stadler, Lisa - 2014

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children, the secondary earner's labor supply and welfare....

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Optimal taxation, child care and models of the household

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014

This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction between second earner wage differences, variation in the price of child care and...

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