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MIIHD

MIIHD is the newly established DFG research unit on “Macroeconomic Implications of Intra-Household Decisions” at the Faculty of Economics and Business composed of a core group of six researchers: Georg Dürnecker, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Zainab Iftikhar, Leo Kaas (deputy), Chiara Lacava and Alexander Ludwig (spokesperson). Our main research goal is to enrich our understanding of intra-household decisions for macroeconomic outcomes, and how those and government policy interventions through tax and transfer programs in turn affect intra-household decisions such as household formation, labor supply, savings and fertility decisions. Our research will build on sound microeconometric data analysis and theoretical models to develop quantitative structural models with heterogeneous populations to address the three-way feedback between intra-household decisions, policy and the macroeconomy with a specific emphasis on inequality, both within and across households.

Georg Dürnecker

Home Production and Structural Transformation

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln

Behind Every Successful Man There is a Woman: The Effects of Within-Household Specialization on Male and Female Careers

Leo Kaas

Chiara Lacava

The Child Penalty in the Labor Market: Working Hours and Joint Career Choices

Alexander Ludwig

Aggregate Effects of the Egg-Freezing Technology and Policy Implications

Leo Kaas

Alexander Ludwig

Families, Housing Decisions and Housing Policies

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln

Alexander Ludwig

Assortative Mating, Inequality and Social Mobility: The Education Channel

Georg Dürnecker

Zainab Iftikhar

Rotten Relationships and the Macroeconomy: The Effects of Parental Separation on Labor Market Outcomes, Inequality and Aggregate Productivity

Zainab Iftikhar

Different Union, Different Rules: Implications for Consumption, Labor Supply, Fertility and Welfare of Household Members