wage differences, variation in prices of bought-in inputs into household production in the form of child care, and domestic … productivity differences as determinants of across-household heterogeneity in second earner labour supply. The analysis highlights … specification of household time use widens the set of cases in which individual taxation is welfare-superior to joint taxation. …

division of labor within the home leads to more children, both at the household (micro) and country (macro) levels. After …

We present a household production model that incorporates multitasking and results from a customized experiment …'s first measures of the own- and cross-price elasticities of household task supply in a multitasking context. …

The standard household production model does not incorporate multitasking, although time-diary data reveal that … household production activities. This model implies associations between household productivity factors and both child outcomes … Surveys to examine the empirical validity of these implications. Consistent with our model’s predictions, household …

The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living … earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model of the household with young children present, that this assumption is not … modelling and numerical simulations based on survey data, that household income is a poor indicator of household well-being. …

will devote to housework. However, when endogeneity of the uses of time are considered using the British Household Panel …This paper analyzes the relationship between parents' time devoted to housework and the time devoted to housework by … in housework for both parents, indicating that the more time parents devote to housework, the more time their children …

guidance on this issue, resting as it does on models of the single person household. An old insight in the earlier public … importance of household production. In this paper we try to show how a simple model of household production can be used to help … centrally important the relationship between productivity in household production and female labour supply really is, and how …

The conventional view is that Americans work longer hours than Germans and other Europeans but when time in household … work but German invest more in household production. This paper examines whether these differences in the allocation of …

regarding work and childbearing, using data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). We estimate the two decisions … jointly and, in addition to personal characteristics, include variables related to the childcare system, parental leave … educational levels, childcare and optional parental leaves have a larger impact on the fertility and participation decisions of …

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of employment and child care payment decisions of single mothers in the … estimate a model that examines the effects of the price of child care and the wage rate on employment decision as well as the … decision to use paid child care among single mothers. The model distinguishes between the full-time and part-time employment …