are equally weighted in the household utility function; (3) Differences in the ratio of the partners' hourly wages are …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 …

This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of … the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to … household's preference ordering over the utility profiles of its members depends on exogenous variables, in particular wage …

are equally weighted in the household utility function; (3) Differences in the ratio of the partners' hourly wages are …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 …

both spouses maximize a household utility function. We assume that paid labor and housework are the endogenous choice … variables and furthermore consider household production. Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish women differ from Dutch women because … they value (joint) household production more in their utility function. Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish men, on the other …

African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto … inefficiency of a household resource allocation does not however refute the hypothesis that it chooses this resource allocation as … if it maximises some form of household welfare function possessing the Pareto property. To refute that hypothesis it is …

asymmetric equilibrium featuring household specialization can arise. Examples where the asymmetric equilibrium is welfare …