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Family Financial Risk Taking When the Wife Earns More 总被引:4,自引:4,他引:0
Nancy Ammon Jianakoplos Alexandra Bernasek 《Journal of Family and Economic Issues》2008,29(2):289-306
This study investigates whether the relative bargaining power of spouses plays a role in explaining household financial risk
taking. Traditional models assume that household decisions are made based on pooled resources and common preferences. In contrast,
bargaining models hypothesize that household decisions depend on the relative bargaining power of spouses. According to bargaining
models, if women are more risk averse, then households should exhibit less financial risk taking as the bargaining power of
the wife increases. Results of an analysis of household financial risk taking in a sample of dual-earner, married households
from the 2004 Survey of Consumer Finances are more consistent with decision making based on pooled resources rather than on the relative bargaining power of spouses.
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Alexandra BernasekEmail: |
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Did the legalization of abortion increase women’s household bargaining power? Evidence from labor supply 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Sonia Oreffice 《Review of Economics of the Household》2007,5(2):181-207
I estimate the impact of abortion legalization on spouses’ labor supplies to test whether legalization increased women’s household
bargaining power, in a collective household behavior framework. Based on CPS data, I find that wives’ labor supply decreased
and their husbands’ increased, which is consistent with the bargaining hypothesis. This contrasts with most studies of abortion
and birth control technologies, which predict a labor supply effect only for women, and of opposite sign. Also consistent
with the bargaining interpretation, I estimate no significant impact on anti-abortion religious couples or on those who regularly
used contraceptives. PSID data yield supportive evidence.
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Sonia OrefficeEmail: |
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The effects of sexual orientation and marital status on how couples hold their money 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Marieka Klawitter 《Review of Economics of the Household》2008,6(4):423-446
Previous research has shown that intrahousehold bargaining power in different-sex couples affects household expenditures and
how families hold their money. This article examines the portfolio of bank accounts held by same-sex and different-sex couples
and its relationship to bargaining power and individual and relationship characteristics. Data from the U.S. Survey of Consumer
Finances suggest that married couples are much more likely to hold money jointly than are same-sex or unmarried different-sex
couples, even after accounting for the effects of other characteristics. However, many couples of all types hold money in
joint accounts and do so more often in longer term relationships and when rearing children. Proxies for bargaining power help
predict whether money will be held in individual accounts for unmarried different-sex and same-sex couples, but not for married
couples. These patterns could reflect greater matching of married couples on preferences or the effects of legal and social
institutions that differ by marital status and sexual orientation.
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Marieka KlawitterEmail: |
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Collective Models of Labor Supply with Nonconvex Budget Sets and Nonparticipation: A Calibration Approach 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Frederic Vermeulen Olivier Bargain Miriam Beblo Denis Beninger Richard Blundell Raquel Carrasco Maria-Concetta Chiuri François Laisney Valérie Lechene Nicolas Moreau Michal Myck Javier Ruiz-Castillo 《Review of Economics of the Household》2006,4(2):113-127
We suggest a methodology to calibrate a collective model with household-specific bargaining rules and marriage-specific preferences
that incorporate leisure externalities. The empirical identification relies on the assumption that some aspects of individual
preferences remain the same after marriage, so that estimation on single individuals can be used. The procedure maps the complete
Pareto frontier of each household in the dataset and we define alternative measures of a power index. The latter is then regressed
on relevant bargaining factors, including a set of variables retracing the potential relative contributions of the spouses
to household disposable income. In its capacity to handle complex budget sets and labor force participation decisions of both
spouses, this framework allows the comparison of unitary and collective predictions of labor supply reactions and welfare
changes entailed by fiscal reforms in a realistic setting (see Michal Myck et al., 2006; Denis Beninger et al., 2006).
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Frederic VermeulenEmail: |
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This paper analyses the sustainability of family bargaining agreements by developing a non-cooperative game between two spouses
with symmetric preferences. To that end, we develop, by using a general utility function, a repeated non-cooperative game
involving two players with symmetric preferences, where the characterization of a Nash sub-game perfect equilibrium allows
us to demonstrate that the spouse with the greater bargaining power has a greater incentive to reach an agreement. This result
is also reproduced by using a particular example of linear preferences in consumption. However, the influence of the bargaining
power on the sustainability of a bargaining solution depends on the specification of the individual preferences, as well as
the degree of altruism between the spouses.
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José Alberto Molina (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Agreeing on more than chicken soup: Intra-household decision-making and treatment for child psychopathology 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Frederick J. Zimmerman 《Review of Economics of the Household》2006,4(3):229-252
Using a large, U.S. dataset it is shown that children are more likely to receive needed mental health specialty treatment
when women have greater decision-making power, as measured by an index of wife-favorable divorce laws and by the sex ratio
at the time of marriage. Stratified analyses show that this effect is modified by the degree of marital conflict. Marriages
characterized by high conflict conform more closely to the unified household model. The paper then presents a model of household
decision-making consistent with these results that incorporates both objective determinants of bargaining power as well as
the role of violent coercion in maintaining otherwise unsustainable equilibria. Implications for improving children’s access
to mental health treatment are offered.
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Frederick J. ZimmermanEmail: |
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Chris van Klaveren Bernard van Praag Henriette Maassen van den Brink 《Review of Economics of the Household》2008,6(2):169-191
In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for two-earner households. The novelty
of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collective household model, where the internally produced goods and externally
purchased goods are assumed to be public. The empirical results suggest that (1) Preferences of men and women differ; (2)
Although there are significant individual variations, on average the utility functions of men and women are equally weighted
in the household utility function; (3) Differences in the ratio of the partners’ hourly wages are explanatory for how individual
utilities are weighted in the household utility function. (4) The female’s preference for household production is influenced
by family size, but this does not hold for the male; (5) Both the male and the female have a backward-bending labor supply
curve; (6) Labor-supply curves are forward-bending with respect to the partner’s wage rate; (7) Our model rejects the unitary
Slutsky symmetry condition.
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Chris van KlaverenEmail: |
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This article investigates parental investments in single-child households. It shows that son preference triggers more parental
investments in children and its effects are stronger on investments in sons. A rise in the sex ratio creates a marriage market
squeeze. It, however, has ambiguous effects on investments in children, which depends on how strong these investments are
as measures for influencing children’s marriage probability. A rise in the sex ratio may particularly raise investments in
daughters and lower investments in sons, or vice versa, or it may induce more or less parental investments in both sons and
daughters. If the sex ratio and preference of sons are correlated, then the effect of the preference for sons on investments
in children is generally ambiguous. If the sex ratio is influenced by parental health investments, then son preference induces
a higher sex ratio. However, the higher sex ratio has ambiguous effects on the subsequent parental investments before a child’s
marriage. We also show that parental preference of child services over a child’s marital status may explain parental investments.
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Junsen ZhangEmail: |
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Naoko Akashi-Ronquest 《Review of Economics of the Household》2009,7(1):59-81
A remarriage typically involves significant changes in a family’s financial circumstance, and these changes, combined with
the relative bargaining relationship between spouses, likely affect the well-being of the children who are part of the family.
In this paper, I use the separate-spheres model, a theoretical model that explains the determinants of bargaining power in
marriage, to analyze how a remarried couple’s bargaining relationship affects their child investment in stepfamilies. Based
on this theoretical model, I build and estimate an empirical model that investigates the determinants of parental investment.
As evidence of parental preference for biological children over stepchildren, I find that an increased wage rate of a biological
mother significantly improves her child investment when her husband is a stepfather of the child, while there is no such effect
for mothers living with the biological father of the child.
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Naoko Akashi-RonquestEmail: |
10.
Gary Chaison 《Journal of Labor Research》2007,28(4):642-657
I ask whether the highly confrontational collective bargaining in the airlines is unique to that industry or a sign of a deepening
crisis in union–management relations nationally. First, airline labor relations are reviewed in the context of extremely contentious
negotiations, intense industry competition, complex and fragmented bargaining structures, frequent bankruptcies, and unpredictable
external shocks. Next, concessionary bargaining in the airlines is discussed, and a new and extreme form of concessionary
bargaining is identified. The emergence of the new concessionary bargaining in the airlines and its spread to the automobile
sector is then interpreted as the early signs of a fundamental transformation of collective bargaining. The implications of
the new concessionary bargaining are then described at the workplace, company, union, and societal levels.
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Gary ChaisonEmail: |
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This paper analyzes income-pooling by using a unique Danish data set that includes questions on income pooling among 1,696
couples. The analyses show that most Danish households use some kind of income pooling and that the proportion of income pooled
varies considerably according to individual characteristics (age, education, occupation, past partners, upbringing) and household
characteristics (household income, duration of marriage, location of residence and the existence of public goods, including
children). However, when all variables are evaluated in a common model, the duration of marriage and the existence of children
predominantly affect the likelihood of income pooling.
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Jens BonkeEmail: |
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David S. Loughran Ashlesha Datar M. Rebecca Kilburn 《Review of Economics of the Household》2008,6(3):223-242
The theoretical and empirical literature on parental investment focuses on whether child-specific parental investments reinforce
or compensate for a child’s initial endowments. However, many parental investments, such as neighborhood quality and family
size and structure, are shared wholly or in part among all children in a household. The empirical results of this paper imply
that such household parental investments compensate for low endowments, as proxied by low birth weight.
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M. Rebecca KilburnEmail: |
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Yonatan Reshef 《Journal of Labor Research》2007,28(4):677-696
In the public sector, Canadian governments intervene frequently in labor disputes by suspending collective bargaining and
curtailing legal strikes. Previous research has focused on the contours of government intervention, such as its overall effects
on collective bargaining and strikes. The discussion highlights one actor, a government, restricting the behavior of another
actor, a union, using legislation and policy making. As a result, we know less about more micro-level elements and implications
of the process of government intervention. I address these themes using a detailed case study of the Alberta Teachers’ Association
and the strikes it coordinated in 2002.
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Yonatan ReshefEmail: |
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Jane D. Poulsen 《Sociological Forum》2006,21(1):3-30
This paper contributes to research examining class formation processes among capitalists by analyzing the fracturing of multiemployer collective bargaining associations in the U.S. coal mining and steel industries. The paper evaluates three theories of bargaining decentralization and offers an alternative account. Analyzing both the earlier stability of multiemployer bargaining and its subsequent decline, the paper attributes decentralization to changes in relationships of interdependence and power among unionized firms. While broad processes of economic restructuring gave rise to these shifts, social processes involving conflict and negotiation determined the specific direction of institutional change.
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Jane D. PoulsenEmail: |
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This paper analyzes poverty and its persistence in Sweden using a large panel with detailed income information obtained from
tax registers. As opposed to many commonly used household panels, the features of the data utilized in this paper allow us
to study native-immigrant differences in poverty. We use a hazard rate model based on multiple spells that accounts for unobserved
heterogeneity and endogenous initial conditions. The empirical results suggest that there is negative duration dependence
in both exit and entry hazard rates. Moreover, the transition rates are significantly affected by immigrant status, educational
attainment, labor market conditions, age, and family status.
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Jorgen HansenEmail: |
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Anna Amilon 《Review of Economics of the Household》2007,5(4):385-404
This paper views temporary parental leave (leave from work to take care of a sick child) as a household public good, produced
with time inputs of the parents as the only input. Assuming equal productivities in the production of temporary parental leave
and equal utility functions of the spouses, different household decision-making processes are applied to develop theoretical
hypotheses on sharing that are thereafter tested empirically. The empirical estimations show that the decision-making process
of the spouses can be explained by a Stackelberg model with male dominance. A stronger threat-point of the female is found
to push the intra household allocation of temporary parental leave towards greater sharing between the spouses. In addition,
an increase in the insurance ceiling will further sharing of temporary parental leave in some families, while reducing it
in others.
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Anna AmilonEmail: |
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The economics of gay and lesbian couples: Introduction to a special issue on gay and lesbian households 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
This article presents a simple conceptual framework integrating three couple-related outcomes analyzed in this volume: wage
differentials in earnings related to couple formation, household formation (including cohabitation and registration as Registered
Domestic Partnership), and intra-household allocation of income. It also discusses some of the articles’ main findings.
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Lisa K. Jepsen (Corresponding author)Email: |
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In this paper we consider the issue of the intra-household distribution of welfare directly using a survey measure of self-perceived
economic well-being. We develop a theoretical model of satisfaction within the household for couples. In the empirical analysis
we find that husbands and wives often report different levels of financial satisfaction. The most important correlate of relative
satisfaction within the household is found to be relative income. This is a direct confirmation of the previously implicit
findings and is predicted by our theoretical model.
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Martin BrowningEmail: |
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Anindya Sen 《Review of Economics of the Household》2009,7(2):189-218
This study attempts to evaluate the relative impacts of parents, siblings, and classmates on youth smoking by employing longitudinal
data from the Waterloo Smoking Prevention Program (WSPP), a chronicle of smoking habits of students enrolled in various high
schools in South Western Ontario, between 1993 and 1996. The empirical results reveal household and classmate smoking to be
significant determinants of individual smoking participation as well as daily smoking. Specifically, an increase in the proportion
of classmates who admit to smoking and cigarette consumption by an elder sibling, are both significantly correlated with a
higher probability of youth smoking. This is a consistent finding across OLS, within-individual, and IV estimates. Finally,
simple OLS estimates suggest the presence of non-linear effects with respect to classmate smoking.
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Anindya SenEmail: |
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Greg Piper Sylke V. Schnepf 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2008,19(2):103-124
The predominant part of the literature states that women are more likely to donate to charitable causes but men are more generous
in terms of the amount given. The last result generally derives from the focus on mean amount given. This article examines
gender differences in giving focusing on the distribution of amounts donated and the probability of giving using micro-data
on individual giving to charitable causes for Great Britain. Results indicate that women are generally more generous than
men also in terms of the amounts donated. Quantile regression analysis shows that this pattern is robust if we take into account
gender differences in individual characteristics such as household structure, education, and income. The article also investigates
differences in gender preferences for varying charitable causes. Results are presented separately for single and married people,
highlighting the very different gender patterns of giving behaviour found in the two groups.
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Sylke V. SchnepfEmail: |