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information structure and labor supply decisions follow the Mirrleesian tradition. However, while the household’s total …
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This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or not work at all, time spent with children, and...
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may feature a more egalitarian allocation of parenting vs. labor supply tasks at the household level, by increasing …
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The literature on household behavior contains hardly any empirical research on the withinhousehold distributional …
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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 …
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differences, variation in the price of child care and domestic productivity differences as determinants of across-household … heterogeneity in second earner labour supply, and of the resulting relationship between household income and the wellbeing of … household members. A central result is that taking account of a richer and more realistic specification of household time use …
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. Instrumental variable fixed effects estimates using two different household panel datasets indicate that co-residence with a father …
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Models that allow for non-cooperative as well as cooperative behavior of families are estimated on data from Norway in 1993 and 1994. The husband is eligible for early retirement while the wife is not. The models aim at explaining labor supply behavior of married couples the first twelve months...
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We revisit the prominent finding that women's incomes are disproportionally often observed just below the income of their partner. So far, this bunching has been explained by couple formation or couples' labor market decisions. We propose an additional mechanism: income misreporting in surveys....
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The present paper quantifies the economic consequences of eliminating the system of income splitting in Germany. We apply a dynamic simulation model with overlapping generations where single and married agents have to decide on labor supply and homework facing income and lifespan risk. The...
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