Economics of the Family and Family Policies

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
FIGURES......Page 8
TABLES......Page 9
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 11
PREFACE......Page 13
Anna and Knut......Page 15
ANNA AND KNUT......Page 16
REFERENCES......Page 20
NOTES......Page 21
PART I WHERE ARE WE IN THE ECONOMICS OF THE FAMILY?......Page 22
PART II MARRIAGE AND FAMILY FORMATION......Page 23
PART III FAMILY POLICIES AND HOUSEHOLD ALLOCATION OF TIME......Page 26
WHY ECONOMICS CANNOT DO WITHOUT ECONOMICS OF THE FAMILY......Page 28
Part I WHERE ARE WE IN THE ECONOMICS OF THE FAMILY?......Page 30
INTRODUCTION......Page 31
MODELS OF FAMILY BEHAVIOR......Page 32
COMMON PREFERENCE MODELS AND THE INCOME-POOLING ASSUMPTION......Page 33
COOPERATIVE BARGAINING MODELS......Page 35
PARETO-OPTIMALITY AND NON-COOPERATIVE BARGAINING MODELS......Page 38
THE MARRIAGE MARKET......Page 40
CONTRIBUTIONS OF BARGAINING APPROACHES TO MARRIAGE......Page 42
REFERENCES......Page 43
NOTES......Page 45
INTRODUCTION......Page 47
PRIVATE PROVISION OF PUBLIC GOODS—IN THE FAMILY......Page 49
The Konrad-Lommerud model......Page 50
Family policy......Page 51
Other family models of private-provision-of-public-goods......Page 53
THE BARGAINING FAMILY REVISITED......Page 54
The rotten kid theorem......Page 55
The Samaritan’s dilemma......Page 56
WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?......Page 57
CONCLUSIONS......Page 58
REFERENCES......Page 59
NOTES......Page 60
Part II MARRIAGE AND FAMILY FORMATION......Page 62
INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND......Page 63
TESTING FAMILY DECISION MODELS......Page 64
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE SUPPORTING THE INCOME-POOLING HYPOTHESIS......Page 66
THE DATA......Page 68
THE EMPIRICAL RESULTS......Page 70
CONCLUSIONS......Page 76
REFERENCES......Page 77
NOTES......Page 78
INTRODUCTION......Page 79
THE MODEL......Page 80
Comparative advantages......Page 82
Sharing and efficiency......Page 83
THE EFFECTS OF DOMINANCE ON MARITAL TRANSFERS......Page 84
DOMINANCE AND FAMILY POLICY......Page 85
CONCLUSION......Page 87
REFERENCES......Page 88
NOTES......Page 89
THEORY......Page 91
Four income effects......Page 93
Marriage market imbalances......Page 94
Data......Page 99
Methods......Page 100
Results......Page 102
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 103
REFERENCES......Page 104
NOTES......Page 105
COHABITATION OR MARRIAGE?......Page 106
PARTNERSHIP AND PRE-PARTNERSHIP BIRTHS......Page 109
WHO COHABITS?......Page 110
CHILDBEARING WITHIN COHABITATIONAL UNIONS......Page 111
PATHWAYS INTO PARTNERSHIP AND CHILDBEARING......Page 114
WHO BECOMES A LONE MOTHER THROUGH COHABITATION DISSOLUTION?......Page 116
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 117
NOTES......Page 118
Part III FAMILY POLICIES AND HOUSEHOLD ALLOCATION OF TIME......Page 120
INTRODUCTION......Page 121
THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF HUMAN CAPITAL......Page 122
CHILDCARE AND EQUITY AND EFFICIENCY TRADE-OFFS......Page 124
Equality between children and effects on efficiency......Page 127
Intergenerational equality and efficiency: one aspect of the child/parent dimension......Page 129
Efficiency considerations in the mother’s time use: a second aspect of the child/parent dimension......Page 131
REFERENCES......Page 133
NOTES......Page 135
THEORY AND METHODS......Page 137
NORWEGIAN AND SWEDISH FAMILY POLICIES......Page 139
DATA AND VARIABLES......Page 140
FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME WORK......Page 144
FINDINGS......Page 145
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION......Page 150
REFERENCES......Page 151
INTRODUCTION......Page 153
Child home care allowance (HCA)......Page 154
THE MODEL......Page 155
THE DATA......Page 158
RESULTS......Page 159
CONCLUSIONS......Page 164
NOTES......Page 165
INTRODUCTION......Page 167
HOUSEHOLD TIME ALLOCATION......Page 168
TAX WEDGES AND TIME ALLOCATION: AN EXAMPLE......Page 170
Assumptions......Page 172
Three decisions......Page 173
And three solutions......Page 174
Taxation and household choice......Page 175
Market equilibrium......Page 176
HOW TO REMOVE THE TAX WEDGES?......Page 178
Tax deductions and economic efficiency......Page 180
Other aspects......Page 182
SUMMARY......Page 183
NOTES......Page 184
INDEX......Page 185