Inequality: Measurement, Interpretation, and Policy (MIP)

Events

FINET Family Economics and Human Capital in the Family

June 26, 2012

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Program

Human Capital in the Family

“Household Choices and Child Development”

  • Chris Flinn (with Daniela del Boca and Matthew Wiswall)
  • Discussant: Franco Peracchi

“Primary-school enrollment, attendance, and completion during the age of illiteracy abatement (Italy, 1880's): an empirical assessment within a family context”

  • Melissa Tartari
  • Discussant: Marco Cosconati

“Happy Together: A Structural Model of Retirement”

Labor Force Participation and Educational Choices in the Family

“Technology and the Changing Family A Unified Model of Marriage, Diviorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation”

“The Disappearing Gender Gap: The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women’s Work”

“Taxation and Labor Force Participation: The Case of Italy”

Marriage Dynamics and Collective Models

“Black-White Marital Matching: Race, Anthropometrics, and Socioeconomics”

“Sharing Rule Identification Bounds for General Collective Consumption Models”

  • Frederic Vermeulen (with Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, and Arthur Lewbel)
  • Discussant: Pierre-Andre Chiappori