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-77 percent. In this paper, we specify and estimate a model of family labor supply which treats both federal and state taxation … family labor supply decision. Joint family efforts are found to be important. The efficiency cost (deadweight loss) of labor …
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Using data from the March CPS and the 1960 Census, this paper describes earnings and employment changes for married couples in different types of households stratified by the husband's hourly wage. While the declines in male employment and earnings have been greatest for low wage men, employment...
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self-insurance as a driving mechanism for the family labor supply responses that we estimate. Combined with a stylized …
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family members. Drawing on theoretical models of collective decision-making, we use extremely rich data from Indonesia to … establish that child health- and education-related human capital outcomes are affected by resources of extended family members … who co-reside with the child and those who are not co-resident. Extended family members are not completely altruistic but …
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While a large literature is interested in the relationship between family and labor supply outcomes, little is known … in beliefs about how future family outcomes are related to future labor supply. Methodological contributions come from an … longitudinal data, can potentially help address endogeneity issues arising in the estimation of the causal effect of family on …
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-reaching implications for gender inequality, household specialization and family structure. Using population register data on all births … due to Chinese import competition lead to a move towards family, with higher rates of fertility, parental leave, and … labor market when young, and a negative trade shock induces women to substitute more to family activities than men. High …
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and how does it compare with the family's money in-come? How does the value of home production differ among families with … children? How does it changeover the family's life cycle? …
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The objective of the paper is to find empirically whether husbands and wives tend to retire at the same time, and to give an explanation of the findings. Similarity of retirement dates could be caused by similarity of tastes (assortative mating), by economic variables, or by the complimentarity...
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Married women's decisions about child-bearing and market work are importantly interrelated. Although there are many estimates of the effects of fertility on female labor supply few of them have adequately addressed the problems of simultaneity inherent in these choices. In this paper, we use...
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In this paper, we study the role of education as insurance against a bad marriage. Historically, due to disparities in earning power and education across genders, married women often found themselves in an economically vulnerable position, and had to suffer one of two fates in a bad marriage:...
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