Search Results - subject_exact:"Intrafamily time allocation"

Bellue, Suzanne; Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - 2026

Standard models of the family assume that spouses share information. In this paper, we challenge this assumption with theory and evidence. We field a new survey module in the Dutch LISS panel where spouses independently report their knowledge of each other's finances. Private information is...

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Private information in the family

Bellue, Suzanne; Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - 2026

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Private information in the family

Bellue, Suzanne; Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - 2026

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Gender role attitudes and marital sorting : implications for household inequality

Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti; Surana, Khushboo - 2026

We study the role of Gender Role Attitudes (GRA) - beliefs about appropriate roles for men and women - in marital sorting and intra-household allocations. Using the UK Household Longitudinal Study and a multidimensional matching model following Dupuy and Galichon (2014), we estimate the...

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Gender role attitudes and marital sorting : implications for household inequality

Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti; Surana, Khushboo - 2026

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Gender role attitudes and marital sorting : implications for household inequality

Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti; Surana, Khushboo - 2026

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Gender role attitudes and marital sorting : implications for household inequality

Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti; Surana, Khushboo - 2026

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Divorce and loss of marital gains from the division of labor : evidence from a pension reform in Japan

Hamaaki, Junya; Ogawa, Yoshitomo - 2026

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Foreign manufacturing jobs and women : impacts on work, marriage, and childbirth

Drozdoff, Natalia; McCaig, Brian; Pavcnik, Nina - 2026

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Commitment and the dynamics of household labour supply : new tests and evidence from Europe

Velilla, Jorge; Theloudis, Alexandros; Chiappori, … - 2026

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Marriage, fertility, and female labor force participation in an aging economy

Arnauld, Toama Boke Aime; Fujimoto, Junichi; Hsu, Minchung - 2026

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Preparing kids for capitalism : the effect of german reunification on the intergenerational transmission of preferences

Doepke, Matthias; Klasing, Mariko - 2026

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Preparing kids for capitalism : the effect of German reunification on the intergenerational transmission of preferences

Doepke, Matthias; Klasing, Mariko - 2026

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Preparing kids for capitalism : the effect of German reunification on the intergenerational transmission of preferences

Doepke, Matthias; Klasing, Mariko - 2026

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The value of marriage and fertility : a blueprint for a structural approach

Cherchye, Laurens; Rock, Bram de; Gobbi, Paula E.; … - 2026

Fertility has declined almost everywhere, yet the pattern of decline differs sharply across countries, education groups, and family forms. We argue that this heterogeneity is best understood through the value of marriage, that is, the surplus generated by partnership relative to outside options....

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The value of marriage and fertility : a blueprint for a structural approach

Cherchye, Laurens; Rock, Bram de; Gobbi, Paula E.; … - 2026

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Grandparenthood related to reduced risk of gray divorce : evidence from 15 countries

Dierker, Philipp; Skirbekk, Vegard - 2026

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Roles of parental risk and time preferences in parental investment and aspirations

Kilenthong, Weerachart T.; Sartja Duangchaiyoosook; … - 2026

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Sorting in marriage markets : the role of non-wage amenities

Judy, Andrew; Kesternich, Iris; Mathevet, Isadora; … - 2026

Partners often match on similar characteristics, such as demographics and wages, contributing to inequality between households. We study whether non-wage job amenities - an important part of compensation in the labor market that may also affect household production - play a role in marriage...

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Sorting in marriage markets : the role of non-wage amenities

Judy, Andrew; Kesternich, Iris; Mathevet, Isadora; … - 2026

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Recent socioeconomic differentials in marriage rates in Korea and China : a comparative study

Chae, Minhee - 2026

This paper explores the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and the recent rapid decline in marriage rates in China and South Korea, using nationally representative longitudinal data. The analysis shows that recently rising never-married rates (NVMR) are increasingly concentrated...

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Migration for marriage

Farahzadi, Shadi - 2026

The impact of policies restricting marriage migration depends on whether it is driven by preferences to marry within one's group (endogamy preferences) or gains from residency in a developed country (outside market value). I develop a novel marriage matching model incorporating the choice to...

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What women see in men and vice versa : estimates based on sex ratios and marriage patterns

Ríos-Rull, José-Víctor; Seitz, Shannon N.; Tanaka, … - 2026

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Personality and the dynamics of marriage: a structural interpretation

Fernández, Gastón P.; Kovaleva, Mariia - 2026

This paper examines how personality shapes intra-household bargaining, marital stability, and the allocation of resources within marriages. We use rich data from the HILDA Survey that combines information on spouses' personalities, wages, time use, and marital histories. In the data, personality...

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Personality and the dynamics of marriage : a structural interpretation

Fernández, Gastón P.; Kovaleva, Mariia - 2025 - Version: December 5, 2025

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Fast solution of dynamic intra-household bargaining models

Hallengreen, Adam; Jørgensen, Thomas H.; Olesen, … - 2026

Dynamic household bargaining models are growing in popularity but are computationally demanding to solve and estimate. We propose a modification to the endogenous grid method (EGM) that allows this class of models to reap the benefits of the EGM. The method, which we refer to as interpolated EGM...

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Increasing women's empowerment : evaluating two interventions in Uganda

Ambler, Kate; Jones, Kelly; O'Sullivan, Michael - 2026

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Left over or opting out? : squeeze, mismatch and surplus in Chinese marriage markets

Rossi, Pauline; Xiao, Yun - 2026

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Left over or opting out? : squeeze, mismatch and surplus in chinese marriage markets

Rossi, Pauline; Xiao, Yun - 2025

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Left over or opting out? : squeeze, mismatch and surplus in Chinese marriage markets

Rossi, Pauline; Xiao, Yun - 2024

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Estimating intra-household inequality from time-use data

Arduini, Francesca - 2026

Estimating intra-household sharing is crucial to understanding overall inequality. Standard measures of consumption inequality only account for inequality between, and not within, households, because expenditure surveys are generally available only at the household level. I develop a new...

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Trends and structure of educational assortative mating

Ciscato, Edoardo - 2026

We study the structure and evolution of educational assortative mating in the U.S. using 1962-2025 Current Population Survey data. From observed marital patterns, we recover the full matrix of marital gains across educational groups within the equilibrium matching framework of Choo and Siow...

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Can you do the dishes? : intra-household time use, labor supply and fertility

Mattia, Andrea - 2026

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Beyond vows : family structure and consumption inequality

Iftikhar, Zainab; Linhard, Theresa; Schwank, Hanna - 2026

This paper studies how family structure shapes consumption inequality and poverty in the USA. Using PSID data and a collective household model, we estimate sharing rules for married and cohabitating couples and recover individual-level consumption. In the full sample, cohabitating couples appear...

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Beyond vows : family structure and consumption inequality

Iftikhar, Zainab; Linhard, Theresa; Schwank, Hanna - 2026

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Tax planning as a family matter : intra-household organization and inequality

Esteller-Moré, Alejandro - 2026 - Version April 2026

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Unintended consequences of immigration reform : marriage market, intra-household bargaining, and well-being

Briselli, Giulia; Kim, Wookun - 2025

We examine the consequences of South Korea's 2008-10 immigration reforms on the marriage market and intra-household outcomes. The reforms unintentionally reduced foreign bride inflows. Exploiting regional variation in exposure to the reforms and using uniquely rich data - administrative records,...

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Marriage, intra-household inequality, and wage risk

Denderski, Piotr; Obermeier, Tim - 2025

How well are workers insured against idiosyncratic wage risk? We revisit this question using a two-earner life-cycle model with endogenous intra-household allocations and marital status dynamics. In a model calibrated to the US, intra-household consumption inequality explains nearly one-fifth of...

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How do family members negotiate to reach a bargaining agreement? : a study of intrahousehold behavior

Chavas, Jean-Paul; Matteazzi, Eleonora; Menon, Martina; … - 2025

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Unexpected inheritances and household labor supply : does the identity of the recipient matter?

Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2025

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Unexpected inheritances and household labor supply : does the identity of the recipient matter?

Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2023

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Stuck in a marriage : labor market shocks, divorce and intra-household reallocation

Kureishi, Wataru; Paule-Paludkiewicz, Hannah; … - 2025

Families play an important role in providing insurance against adverse shocks, but little is known about how shocks affect the family structure itself. We study the impact of a labor market shock on divorce and intra-household allocation of resources, exploiting a naturalexperimental earthquake...

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The anatomy of marital happiness

Peltzman, Sam - 2025

Since 1972, the General Social Survey has periodically asked whether people are happy with Yes, Maybe or No type answers. Here I use a net "happiness" measure, which is percentage Yes less percentage No with Maybe treated as zero. Average happiness is around +20 on this scale for all respondents...

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Race, marriage, and the earned income tax credit

Leguizamon, Sebastian; Leguizamón, Susane; Alm, James - 2025

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How do gender, race, and earnings affect the EITC marriage penalty/bonus?

Leguizamon, Sebastian; Leguizamón, Susane; Alm, James - 2025

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The fertility, marriage, and gender equality quandary

Zhou, Anson - 2025

This paper studies the nexus among fertility, family structure, and gender income equality. I document a novel three-way trade-off in cross-country data: simultaneously achieving high fertility, low single parenthood, and gender income equality is unlikely at all levels of economic development....

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Gender equality through marriage

Moroni, Gloria; Nicoletti, Cheti; Salvanes, Kjell G.; … - 2025

We revisit the economic effects of marriage, analysing its heterogeneous impact on the intra-household labour division following childbirth. Can marriage promote coordination of work and child activities between parents and a gender egalitarian division of labour? Using a marginal treatment...

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Gender equality through marriage

Moroni, Gloria; Nicoletti, Cheti; Salvanes, Kjell G.; … - 2025

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Bequest division : the roles of parental motives and children's gender composition

Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Olivera, Javier; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2025

Drawing on two data sources from across Europe, we show that both bequest motives of parents and children's gender composition shape unequal divisions of bequests. First, the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe reveals that observed bequests are divided unequally when children...

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Bequest division : the roles of parental motives and children's gender composition

Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Olivera, Javier; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2025

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Bequest division : the roles of parental motives and children's gender composition

Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Olivera, Javier; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2025

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The impact of next-generation broadband : marriage rates and assortative mating

Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2025

This work examines the effect of next-generation broadband on marriage rates among opposite- and same-sex couples in Spain. Given that the decision to sustain a relationship and enter into marriage is influenced by a broad spectrum of opportunities, high-speed broadband access can play a pivotal...

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(Changing) marriage and cohabitation patterns in the US : do divorce laws matter?

Balsutto, Fabio; Kozlov, Egor - 2025

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Loss of marital gains from the division of labor and divorce : evidence from a pension reform in Japan

Hamaaki, Junya; Ogawa, Yoshimoto - 2025

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Maternal investments in children : the role of expected effort and returns

Bhalotra, Sonia; Delavande, Adeline; Font-Gilabert, Paulino - 2025

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Maternal investments in children : the role of expected effort and returns

Bhalotra, Sonia; Delavande, Adeline; Font, Paulino; … - 2025

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Maternal investments in children : the role of expected effort and returns

Bhalotra, Sonia; Delavande, Adeline; Font-Gilabert, Paulino - 2022

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Maternal investments in children : the role of expected effort and returns

Bhalotra, Sonia; Delavande, Adeline; Gilabert, Paulino Font - 2020

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Maternal Investments in Children : The Role of Expected Effort and Returns

Bhalotra, Sonia - 2020

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Assortative mating and couple taxation : a note

Corneo, Giacomo - 2025

An often neglected implication of couple taxation is its impact on marital sorting. A tractable model of such an impact is offered in this paper. It reveals that, as compared to joint taxation with income splitting, individual taxation makes higher-ability individuals more picky in the marriage...

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Families' career investments and firms' promotion decisions

Almar, Frederik; Friedrich, Benjamin; Reynoso, Ana; … - 2025

This paper studies how family and firm investments interact to explain gender gaps in career achievement. Using Danish administrative data, we first document novel evidence of this interaction through a "spousal effect" on firm-side career investments. This effect is accounted for by family...

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Families' career investments and firms’ promotion decisions

Almar, Frederik; Friedrich, Benjamin; Reynoso, Ana; … - 2025

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Guaranteed employment in rural India : intra-household labor and resource allocation consequences

García, Jorge Luis - 2025

I investigate the intra-household labor and resource allocation consequences of an employment guarantee targeting rural households in India. The guarantee insures household earnings, replacing women as added workers and shutting down a motive for saving. Despite sizable program-job take-up, the...

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Traditional institutions in modern times : dowries as pensions when sons migrate

Bau, Natalie; Khanna, Gaurav; Low, Corinne; Voena, … - 2026

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Traditional institutions in modern times : dowries as pensions when sons migrate

Bau, Natalie; Khanna, Gaurav; Low, Corinne; Voena, … - 2025

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From vows to breakups: a structural approach to divorce in the US

Cherchye, Laurens; Van Samang, Helene; Vermeulen, Frederic - 2025

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Poverty traps driven by family bargaining

Ueno, Yotaro - 2025

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Conscious Coupling

Friedson-Ridenour, Sophia; Hailemicheal, Adiam Hagos; … - 2025

Husbands are often key stakeholders and influential in women's enterprise performance. Intrahousehold constraints and relational dynamics may contribute to a gender gap in entrepreneurship. This mixed-methods paper uses a randomized controlled trial and qualitative research to examine whether...

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Wealth, marriage, and sex selection

Borker, Girija; Eeckhout, Jan; Luke, Nancy; Minz, Shantidani - 2024

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Wealth, Marriage, and Sex Selection

Borker, Girija; Eeckhout, Jan; Luke, Nancy; Minz, Shantidani - 2025

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The labor supply costs of intra-household economic violence

Lagomarsino, Elena; Trevisan, Francesco - 2025

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Left over or opting out ? : squeeze, mismatch and surplus in Chinese marriage market

Rossi, Pauline; Xiao, Yun - 2025

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Education, patriarchy, and time allocations of married couples

Bhattacharya, Leena; Soest, Arthur van - 2025

How married couples allocate their time across activities has been studied in developed countries, but remains an open question in many developing countries. We pool the 2019 and 2024 waves of the India Time Use Survey (TUS), the two most recent nationally representative surveys, to analyze the...

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Only-child matching penalty in the marriage market

Kawata, Keisuke; Komura, Mizuki - 2025

This study explores the marriage matching of only-child individuals and the related outcomes. Specifically, we analyze two aspects: First, we investigate the marriage patterns of only children, examining whether people choose mates in a positive or negative assortative manner regarding...

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Only-child matching penalty in the marriage market

Kawata, Keisuke; Komura, Mizuki - 2023

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