This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of … household's preference ordering over the utility profiles of its members depends on exogenous variables, in particular wage … approach to modelling household decision taking, flexible enough to encompass non-cooperative behaviour and Pareto …

effect of COVID-19 on the working arrangements, housework and childcare of couples where both partners work. ties. According … more time on housework than before. The link between time devoted to childcare and working arrangements is more symmetric … to our empirical estimates, changes to the amount of housework done by women during the emergency do not seem to depend …

that expanded childcare for 1–2- year-olds in Norway. Our results reveal a significant increase in the overall employment …In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We …-protected maternity leave and with currently zero hours of work from the target group, we estimate even larger effects on employment and …

-time employment rates by 9 percentage points (+160%), household income by 10%, and mothers’ earnings by 22%. The effect on full …-time employment is largely driven by increased care hours provided by child care centers and fathers. Overall, the treatment … substantially improves intra-household gender equality in terms of child care duties and earnings …

impacts are perceived to operate, we document that beliefs about the impact of additional household income can account for … are predictive of labor supply intentions under different policy scenarios related to childcare availability and quality …

lapses in implicit childcare−provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment aligns … and gender differences within jobs in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Summer childcare constraints may … employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women …

Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of … a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor …

In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for two-earner households. The … novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collective household model, where the internally produced goods and … are equally weighted in the household utility function; (3) Differences in the ratio of the partners' hourly wages are …

the proportion of couples getting divorced, and an increase in fathers’ housework and childcare time of more than an hour …We consider a non-cooperative model of the household, in which the husband and wife decide on parental leave and the …