TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bauernschuster, Stefan
A1  - Borck, Rainald
T1  - Formal Child Care and Family Structure: Theory and Evidence
JF  - CESifo economic studies : a joint initiative of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and Ifo Institute for Economic Research
N2  - This article studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium, the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision affects the equilibrium. Due to specialization in home production, the incentive to use child care is smaller for married mothers than for single mothers. We show that this increases the number of single mothers and the divorce rate. Using survey data from Germany, we present suggestive empirical evidence consistent with this finding. (JEL codes: J12 and J13).
KW  - marriage
KW  - divorce
KW  - single parenthood
KW  - child care
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1093/cesifo/ifv025
SN  - 1610-241X
SN  - 1612-7501
VL  - 62
SP  - 699
EP  - 724
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Borck, Rainald
T1  - Will skyscrapers save the planet? Building height limits and urban greenhouse gas emissions
JF  - Regional science and urban economics
N2  - This paper studies the effectiveness of building height limits as a policy to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It shows that building height limits lead to urban sprawl and higher emissions from commuting. On the other hand, aggregate housing consumption may decrease, which reduces emissions from residential energy use. A numerical model is used to evaluate whether total GHG emissions may be lower under building height restrictions. Welfare is not concave in the strictness of building height limits, so either no limit or a very strict one (depending on the strength of the externality) might maximize welfare. The paper discusses several extensions, such as congestion, endogenous transport mode choice, migration, and urban heat island effect. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
KW  - Greenhouse gas emissions
KW  - City structure
KW  - Building height limits
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2016.01.004
SN  - 0166-0462
SN  - 1879-2308
VL  - 58
SP  - 13
EP  - 25
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -