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This paper examines married women's time allocation to market hours and spousal care in the event of their husbands' disability and its implications for evaluating the insurance value of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program. First, I find that while spousal labor supply...
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driven by selection and are robust to several specification checks, including the introduction of household fixed effects and …
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common empirical approach and a complete simulation of tax-benefit policies affecting household budgets. We find that wage … preferences. We derive important implications for research on optimal taxation. -- household labor supply ; elasticity ; taxation …
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whether the degree of flexibility and the implicit household representation in these models are satisfying when confronted to … predicted labor supply responses to tax-benefit reforms is sensitive to the underlying household representation …. -- multionominal logit ; household labor supply ; tax reform ; unitary model ; collective model …
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Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian registry data, we exploit the random nature of single, early miscarriages to examine the impact of pregnancy loss on parental investment and family outcomes. We find that pregnancy...
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This paper explores the motivations behind the adoption of key renewable energy technologies in an early adopter market. Notwithstanding their social benefits, uptake of electric vehicles, heat pumps, and solar photovoltaic panels remains low, necessitating targeted measures to address this. We...
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In the United States, the employment rate is nearly flat across wealth quintiles with the exception of the first quintile. Correlations between wealth and employment are close to zero or moderately positive. However, incomplete markets models with a standard utility function counterfactually...
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