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Does the representation of the household behavior matter for welfare analysis of tax-benefit policies ?

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  • Olivier Bargain

    (IZA - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit - Institute of Labor Economics, Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD))

  • Miriam Beblo

    (Centre for European Economic Research (Mannheim, Germany) - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - Universität Mannheim)

  • Denis Beninger

    (Centre for European Economic Research (Mannheim, Germany) - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - Universität Mannheim)

  • Richard Blundell

    (IFS - Laboratory of the Institute for Fiscal Studies - Institute for Fiscal Studies, UCL - University College of London [London])

  • Raquel Carrasco

    (UC3M - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid [Madrid])

  • Marie-Concetta Chiuri

    (Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD), UNIBA - Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro = University of Bari Aldo Moro)

  • Francois Laisney

    (BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre for European Economic Research (Mannheim, Germany) - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - Universität Mannheim)

  • Valérie Lechene

    (IFS - Laboratory of the Institute for Fiscal Studies - Institute for Fiscal Studies, University of Oxford)

  • Nicolas Moreau

    (GREMAQ - Groupe de recherche en économie mathématique et quantitative - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - UT - Université de Toulouse - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LIRHE - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de recherche sur les Ressources Humaines et l'Emploi - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - UT - Université de Toulouse - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Michal Myck

    (IFS - Laboratory of the Institute for Fiscal Studies - Institute for Fiscal Studies, DIW Berlin - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung)

  • Javier Ruiz-Castillo

    (UC3M - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid [Madrid])

  • Frédéric Vermeulen

    (Tilburg University [Tilburg] - Netspar)

Abstract

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 Bargain & Miriam Beblo & Denis Beninger & Richard Blundell & Raquel Carrasco & Marie-Concetta Chiuri & Francois Laisney & Valérie Lechene & Nicolas Moreau & Michal Myck & Javier Ruiz-Castillo , 2006. "Does the representation of the household behavior matter for welfare analysis of tax-benefit policies ?," Post-Print hal-00279212, HAL.
  • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00279212
    DOI: 10.1007/s11150-006-0001-8
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    1. Beninger, Denis & Laisney, François, 2006. "On the performance of unitary models of household labor supply estimated on “collective” data with taxation," Cahiers d'Economie et de Sociologie Rurales (CESR), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), vol. 81.
    2. Pierre-Andre Chiappori & Costas Meghir, 2014. "Intrahousehold Inequality," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 1948, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University.
    3. Pierre-Andre Chiappori & Costas Meghir, 2014. "Intra-household Welfare," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 1949, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University.
    4. Anna Kurowska & Michal Myck & Katharina Wrohlich, 2012. "Family and Labor Market Choices: Requirements to Guide Effective Evidence-Based Policy," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 1234, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
    5. Donni, Olivier & Molina, José Alberto, 2018. "Household Collective Models: Three Decades of Theoretical Contributions and Empirical Evidence," IZA Discussion Papers 11915, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    6. Jérôme De Henau, 2008. "Asymetric power within couples: the gendered effect of children and employment on entitlement to household income," Brussels Economic Review, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles, vol. 51(2/3), pages 269-290.
    7. Pierre-Carl Michaud & Frederic Vermeulen, 2006. "A Collective Labor Supply Model Identification and Estimation in the Presence of Externalities By Means of Panel Data," Working Papers WR-406, RAND Corporation.

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