This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature … suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while … spouses within each household, allowing for corner solutions and correlations in the unobservables across the system of six …

This paper tests three hypotheses concerning intra-household resource allocation in rural China. First, whether … increasing the women's bargaining power alters household expenditure patterns. Second, whether households allocate fewer …: lower female outlay equivalent ratios for adult goods; greater sensitivity of household health spending to young boys than …

human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the gene pool. A key consequence of the trade-off faced by women is that … relative to remaining single, the greater the man's human capital, and the lower the woman's human capital. As a consequence … themselves. There is a mass of unmarried men at the bottom of the distribution of human capital, and a mass of single women at …

of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model … to an increase in their wife's wage. Non-labour income reduces paid work by parents and increases their non-market time …

The paper examines intergenerational transmission of 'religious capital' from parents to their offspring, within an … economic framework of a production function of 'religiosity' where parental inputs serve as factors of production. A sample of … robust conclusions. A theoretical framework is followed by stylized facts on household composition. Then the effect of the …

We consider the collective model of labor supply with marketable domestic production. We first show that, if domestic … production is mistakenly ignored, the “collective” indirect utilities that are retrieved from observed behavior will be unbiased … bias will depend on the complementarity/substitutability of spouses’ time inputs in the production process. We then show …

covers the period 1993-2005. The estimates indicate that it is advantageous to adjust the stock of labour and capital … simultaneously. The cost advantage of simultaneous changes is small for capital but is large for labour. The empirical results … suggest that when estimating separate factor demand models the bias of parameter estimates is most severe in case of labour …

We analyze the determinants of household work contracted in the German shadow economy. The German socio …-economic household panel, which enumerates casual domestic employment, is used to estimate the demand for such household work. The … regressors include regional wage rates, household income and several control variables for household composition. We find that …

utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of companionable others inside and outside the household … propensities to engage in associative activity depend on the availability of Suitable Leisure Companions outside the household. Our …