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Gender Power, Fertility, and Family Policy
Kemnitz, Alexander; Thum, Marcel - CESifo - 2012
show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for … overcome the fertility bias. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551434
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Daddy Months
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2014
We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948876
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Family Taxation, Fertility, and Horizontal Equity: A Political Economy Perspective
Balestrino, Alessandro - CESifo - 2012
whether i) the parents control their fertility or not, ii) they value their children or not. Second, it investigates the … all "relevant" senses identical should be treated identically); it turns out that under endogenous fertility, any winning … policy trivially satisfies horizontal equity, but if fertility is exogenous for some of (or all) the parents, horizontal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540255
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How to Avoid a Pension Crisis: A Question of Intelligent System Design
Cigno, Alessandro - CESifo - 2009
Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051548
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Globalization, Gender and Development: The Effect of Parental Labor Supply on Child Schooling
Marchand, Beyza Ural; Rees, Ray; Riezman, Raymond - CESifo - 2011
Tariff reductions have gender-specific effects on the labor market that change the relative bargaining power within households, which in turn affects child outcomes. We estimate how changes in parental labor supply due to these tariff reductions affect child schooling by focusing on young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833909
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Formal and Informal Risk Sharing in LDCs: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Dubois, Pierre; Jullien, Bruno; Magnac, Thierry - CESifo - 2008
We develop and estimate a model of dynamic interactions in which commitment is limited and contracts are incomplete to explain the patterns of income and consumption growth in village economies of less developed countries. Households can insure each other through both formal contracts and...
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Testing the Pareto Efficiency of Household Resource Allocations
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2008
In a careful and thorough empirical study, Christopher Udry (1996) shows convincingly that, in a large sample of West African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto inefficiency of a household resource allocation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406400
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Household Relational Contracts for Marriage, Fertility and Divorce
Fahn, Matthias; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2011
the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371343
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Agency in Family Policy: A Survey
Cigno, Alessandro - CESifo - 2009
Given that young children are under the control of their parents, if the government has an interest in either the welfare or the productivity of the former, it has no option but to act through the latter. Parents are, in the ordinary sense of the word, the government’s agents. They are agents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979405
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More Schooling, More Children? Compulsory Schooling and Fertility in Europe
Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - CESifo - 2014
We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and … Continental Europe, implemented between 1936 and 1975. We assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological … children and the incidence of childlessness. We find surprising results for Continental Europe: the additional education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075723