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Household Negotiation and Labor Supply: Evidence from the BHPS

Clark, Andrew; Couprie, Hélène; Sofer, Catherine - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2002

In this paper, we estimate a collective model of household labour supply à la Chiappori on British two-earner couples …, using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). We find that family members do not pool their resources: the … unitary model is rejected. We estimate a sharing rule representing the negotiation process inside the household, introducing a …

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Materialism on the March: From Conspicuous Leisure to Conspicuous Consumption?

Frijters, Paul; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

This paper inserts Veblen’s (1898) concepts of conspicuous leisure and conspicuous consumption into a very simple model. Individuals have the choice to either invest their time into working, leading to easily observable levels of consumption, or into conspicuous leisure, whose effect on...

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Do Marital Prospects Dissuade Unmarried Fertility?

Kennes, John; Knowles, John - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2013

We develop a new directed-search model of fertility and marriage, and apply it to two empirical problems: the rise in unmarried women’s share of births since 1970, and the fact that black women have lower marriage rates and higher rates of unmarried births than white women. The premise is that...

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Can technological change account for the sexual revolution?

Kennes, John; Knowles, John - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2013

By reducing the risk of unwanted parenthood, more effective contraception reduces the cost of sex outside of marriage, increasing the value of single life. Could this explain why marriage and birth rates declined in the U.S. after 1970?. We illustrate our hypothesis with a one-period example. We...

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Time for Children, a Study of Parents’ Time Allocation

Hallberg, Daniel; Klevmarken, Anders - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2001

Process benefit scores indicates that time with own children is preferred before all other activities, closely followed by market work. The trade-off between parents’ time with their own kids and market work, and its dependence on out-of-home day-care is analyzed in a simultaneous equation...

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Synchronous Leisure, Jointness and Household Labor Supply

Hallberg, Daniel - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2002

This paper examines the synchronous leisure of spouses and the extent to which spouses spend time together. The time budget data set used in this paper allows for a distinction between simultaneous time-use of spouses and the actual time that spouses meet. A comparison between couples and...

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Collective Household Labor Supply: Extensions.

Donni, O. - Département et Laboratoire d'Économie Théorique … - 2000

, in order to study household labor supply. The theoretical innovation is twofold. First, we incorporate in the initial … recorevered (ii) testable constraints are generated, from the observation of the household labor supplies. …

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Policy Reform Options for Australian Sole Parents.

Murray, J - School of Economics, UNSW Business School - 1997

While the link between the labour force status and welfare of Australian sole parents has been well documented, there is little empirical evidence on the responsiveness of this group to economic incentives. This paper uses an econometric modelling framework to predict the labour supply, welfare...

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Microeconomic Analysis of Time-Use Data. Did We Reach the Promised Land?

Klevmarken, N.A. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998

This paper surveys the last decade of micro-economic research using time-use data. Focusing on the household production …

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Family Taxation: An Unfair and Inefficient System

Apps, Patricia - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

This paper presents an analysis of the 2005-06 family tax system comprising the personal income tax, the Medicare Levy, Family Tax Benefits Parts A and B and tax offsets. The results show that most families are now taxed, in effect, on the basis of joint income. Through a succession of reforms...

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