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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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Inmaculada García José Alberto Molina María Navarro 《Journal of Family and Economic Issues》2007,28(4):546-565
This paper first identifies the determinants of spouses’ satisfaction levels within the household with respect to their leisure
time and, secondly, characterizes whether their preferences have some degree of altruistic or egoistic character in regard
to this particular satisfaction. To that end, it formulates a theoretical framework from the collective family model whose
stochastic formulations are estimated for 14 EU countries. The general empirical results first reveal that the presence of
children has a significantly negative impact on the leisure satisfaction of both spouses. Then, increases in individual incomes
lead to lower own leisure satisfaction levels. Both husbands and wives show egoistic behavior with respect to the labor and
non-labor incomes (wage rate) of their respective spouses’ satisfaction levels.
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María NavarroEmail: |
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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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Saving for Children’s College Education: An Empirical Analysis of the Trade-off Between the Quality and Quantity of Children 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
Tansel Yilmazer 《Journal of Family and Economic Issues》2008,29(2):307-324
This paper examines the effect of children’s college expenses on household savings. The theoretical model introduces life-cycle
savings into the quality–quantity model of fertility and derives predictions for the impact of expected expenses on parents’
savings. Using the actual amount of parents’ financial support reported in the Survey of Consumer Finances, the empirical
model estimates the expected expenditures on children’s college education and investigates the effect of expected expenditures
on parents’ savings. The results show that parents’ support for each of their children’s college expenses decreases with the
number of children. The results are consistent with the predictions of the life-cycle theory of saving and consumption that
households save in advance for expected expenses to smooth their consumption.
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Tansel YilmazerEmail: |
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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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Most analysis of intrahousehold decisions has been conducted using aggregate revealed preference data where preferences of
individual agents are never observed, only the household consumption outcomes are observed. We examine household behavior
in a bargaining framework by combining stated preference information from individual members of the household with revealed
preference information on the household’s actual choices. The resulting model provides information on the degree to which
the decision is the result of a bargaining process as well as information on the factors affecting bargaining power.
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Wiktor AdamowiczEmail: |
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Michal Myck Olivier Bargain Miriam Beblo Denis Beninger Richard Blundell Raquel Carrasco Maria-Concetta Chiuri François Laisney Valérie Lechene Ernesto Longobardi Nicolas Moreau Javier Ruiz-Castillo Frederic Vermeulen 《Review of Economics of the Household》2006,4(2):129-158
A framework for simplified implementation of the collective model of labor supply decisions is presented in the context of
fiscal reforms in the UK. Through its collective form the model accounts for the well known problem of distribution between
wallet and purse, a broadly debated issue which has so far been impossible to model due to the limitations of the unitary
model of household behavior. A calibrated data set is used to model the effects of introducing two forms of the Working Families’
Tax Credit. We also summarize results of estimations and calibrations obtained using the same methodology on data from five
other European countries. The results underline the importance of taking account of the intrahousehold decision process and
suggest that who receives government transfers does matter from the point of view of labor supply and welfare of household
members. They also highlight the need for more research into models of household behavior.
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Michal MyckEmail: |
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Married Couples’ Time Allocation Decisions and Marital Stability 总被引:4,自引:4,他引:0
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), 1985–1992, are the data used to simultaneously examine the role of family stability
to both market and household time allocation for both spouses and the role of couples’ time allocation in their probability
of divorce. The study found that increases in the probabilities of divorce were only significantly correlated with decreases
in wife’s housework time. It was also found by the study that increases in the husband’s market work hours and increases in
the wife’s household work hours had negative effects on the probability of divorce.
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Jiahui YanEmail: |
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Denis Beninger Olivier Bargain Miriam Beblo Richard Blundell Raquel Carrasco Maria-Concetta Chiuri François Laisney Valérie Lechene Ernesto Longobardi Nicolas Moreau Michal Myck Javier Ruiz-Castillo Frederic Vermeulen 《Review of Economics of the Household》2006,4(2):159-180
This paper proposes a comparison of the results of tax policy analysis obtained on the basis of unitary and collective representations
of the household. We first generate labour supplies consistent with the collective rationality, by use of a model calibrated
on microdata as described in Vermeulen et al. [Collective Models of Household Labor Supply with Nonconvex Budget Sets and
Nonparticipation: A Calibration Approach (2006)]. A unitary model is then estimated on these collective data and unitary and collective responses to a tax reform are compared.
We focus on the introduction of linear taxation in Germany. The exercise is replicated for other European countries and other
topical reforms. Distortions due to the use of a unitary model turn out to be important in predicting labour supply adjustments,
in the design of tax revenue neutral reforms, and in predicting a reform’s welfare implications.
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Denis BeningerEmail: |
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By reducing risk of large out-of-pocket medical expenses, comprehensive social health insurance may reduce households’ motivation
to engage in precautionary behaviors such as saving, procurement of private insurance, and spousal labor-force participation.
We use the natural experiment provided by the 1995 introduction of National Health Insurance in Taiwan to examine these effects,
using pre-existing differences in access to health insurance (tied to the household head’s and spouse’s joint employment status)
to identify the effects of increasing insurance coverage. We find that comprehensive health insurance has a statistically
significant and large effect on household savings, but no significant effects on purchase of private accident insurance and
spousal employment.
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Shin-Yi ChouEmail: |
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We examine older Americans’ choice of vehicle types and the impact of age and health status on this choice. Using the 1998 and 2000 Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the 2001 HRS Consumption and Activities Mail Survey (CAMS), we estimate a multinomial logit model of older Americans’ choice of vehicle types. We find that both age and health status influence the type of vehicle purchased or leased. Compared to Americans aged 50–59, those aged 70 or older prefer passenger cars to trucks and sport utility vehicles (SUVs). We also find that elders with health problems are more likely to prefer SUVs to passenger cars than those without health problems.
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Doh-Khul KimEmail: |
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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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Fadzlan Sufian 《Transition Studies Review》2009,16(1):114-126
By applying the non-parametric Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) method, this paper attempts to investigate the sources of
productivity changes of China’s State Owned Commercial Banks (SOCBs) and Joint Stock Commercial Banks (JSCBs) during the period
2000–2005. The empirical findings suggest that the China banking sector has exhibited productivity progress attributed to
the increase in efficiency. The empirical findings suggest that the SOCBs and the JSCBs have exhibited productivity progress
of 0.2 and 1.3%, respectively.
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Fadzlan SufianEmail: |
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Does the Representation of Household Behavior Matter for Welfare Analysis of Tax-benefit Policies? An Introduction 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Olivier Bargain Miriam Beblo Denis Beninger Richard Blundell Raquel Carrasco Maria-Concetta Chiuri François Laisney Valérie Lechene Nicolas Moreau Michal Myck Javier Ruiz-Castillo Frederic Vermeulen 《Review of Economics of the Household》2006,4(2):99-111
A widely shared intuition holds that individual control over money matters for the decision process within the household and
the subsequent distribution of resources and welfare. As a consequence, there are good reasons to depart from the unitary
model of the household and to explore the possibilities offered by models of the family accounting for several decision makers
in the household and for the potential impact of tax reforms on the balance of power. This paper summarizes both the methodological
and empirical findings presented in the next three papers of this special issue of the Review of the Economics of the Household. This series of contributions primarily entails a concrete comparison of the policy implications of the choice between the
unitary and a particular multi-person representation: the collective representation. On the one hand, it suggests a methodology
to implement the collective model of labor supply in a realistic context where participation is modeled together with working
hours, and where the full tax-benefit system is accounted for. On the other hand, the empirical part relies on comprehensive
simulations of tax reforms in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom, and allows to quantify the distortions
that may affect policy recommendations based on the unitary model.
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Olivier BargainEmail: |
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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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Collective and Unitary Models: A Clarification 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
Martin Browning Pierre-André Chiappori Valérie Lechene 《Review of Economics of the Household》2006,4(1):5-14
In this note we identify and clarify a confusion that has arisen in the literature about the exact relationship between unitary
and collective models and what enters the Pareto weight and the sharing function. We suggest that we should denote as ‘unitary’
any model that leads to outcomes that satisfy the Slutsky conditions whether or not these outcomes depend on distribution
factors. In particular, income pooling is neither necessary nor sufficient for a unitary model. We also show that the presence
of prices or total expenditure in the sharing rule cannot be used as a test for a unitary model.
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Valérie LecheneEmail: |
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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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Household Debt and Marital Instability: Evidence from the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study 总被引:2,自引:1,他引:1
Korean society has recently experienced rapid increases in household debt and divorce rates. This study investigates whether
household debt and debt ratios lower marital stability and increase the probability of divorce among Korean families. Six-year
panels from the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS) household surveys were used for analysis. The effect of household
debt upon the probability of divorce was estimated through pooled and population-averaged Logit models. The results suggest
that household financial strain measured by the amount of household debt and the debt-to-income ratios does not significantly
affect the probability of divorce. This finding contradicts the widespread notion that households’ excessive borrowing has
been partially responsible for the recent increase in divorce rates in Korea.
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Ki Young LeeEmail: |
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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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Basant K. Kapur 《Social Choice and Welfare》2005,25(1):155-171
In his book Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy in an Era of Excess (1999) economist Robert Frank describes a number of significant trends in the U.S., and to a lesser extent in other industrial
economies, since the late 1970s: rapidly rising incomes, for those at the upper end of the income scale, increasing hours
of work, and increased consumerism (share of consumption of ‘status goods’). We demonstrate that the first development can parsimoniously account for the latter two.
Our novel specification of the utility function simultaneously incorporates a relative-consumption effect for status goods
and non-homotheticity of preferences between status and non-status goods, and we also allow for endogenous labour–leisure
choice. It is possible that well-being has declined, notwithstanding the faster income growth, or at least not risen pari passu with the growth in earnings. Comparisons are made with other studies, and policy implications briefly discussed.
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Basant K. KapurEmail: |