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This paper analyses the impact of current and past lottery wins on household labor supply in the United Kingdom using … data from the British Household Panel Survey 1997-2008. Estimating individual fixed-effects models, we show that male … (lottery wins worth more than £500), we find a compensation effect within the household, as the recipient's spouse increases …
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households over time. To investigate this hypothesis, we incorporate heterogeneous agents into a household model of labor supply …
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conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply …
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(2002) to an intertemporal setting. We first develop a theoretical model to analyze the intra-household distribution of … setting. We show that wages are positively related to household labor supply, although cross and lagged effects show negative … correlates. Furthermore, the ability of wives to negotiate the intra-household allocation of non-labor income is mainly driven by …
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We consider the life cycle choices of a household that in each period decides how much to consume and how to allocate … transitory and permanent wage shocks. These structural parameters describe the ability of household to self-insure in response to …
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Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan (2015) document that in the U.S. there is a sharp discontinuity to the right of 1/2 in the distribution of households according to the share of income earned by the wife, which they attribute to the existence of a gender identity norm postulating that a wife should...
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This paper analyzes the intra-household distribution of wealth and welfare in the United States, within a theoretical … framework based on a collective model of labor supply, where household decisions are Pareto efficient, and spouses negotiate a … wives tend to be more altruistic in comparison to their husbands regarding the intra-household allocation of income, which …
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the household is an important factor that should be considered when analyzing household decisions …
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population in the household then examine the determinants of the decision to supply labour. The fraction of home …-produced childcare to household childcare needs is considered to be a public good within the household, for which preferences are … of the choice of home childcare vs. labour supply. We are able to quantify each household's sensitivity to potential …
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a fair distribution of relative working hours within the household. Using three nationally-representative data, we show …
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