Non-Cooperative versus Cooperative Family
Non-Cooperative versus Cooperative Family
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非合作家庭与合作家庭
DOI:
10.1007/s00712-014-0391-7
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
Koichi Futagami
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文献类型:
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作者:
Atsue Mizushima; Koichi Futagami
This paper focuses on strategic interaction within a family and examines individual decision making. We set up a two-stage game model. In the first stage of the game, a man and a woman who have not yet met simultaneously determine their education levels non-cooperatively. In the second stage, they marry and determine their leisure time. In the second stage, we compare two decision modes, non-cooperative and cooperative, in order to characterize the nature of cooperation within the families. In addition, we extend the basic model on the basis of a Stackelberg game. In this setting, we consider the case in which a man acts as a leader and a woman acts as a follower. We show that the leader invests in higher education and chooses more leisure time than the follower. This coincides with the empirical findings.