expenditure patterns of school-age children. We estimate a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System, and find that, whilst most … commodities are normal goods, sweets and toys are luxury items for children. Children of lone parents have lower budget shares for … suggesting that children mimic their parent?s expenditure patterns. …

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 …

This paper finds declining consumption expenditure between paydays, for a typical household in the working population …

We propose a collective labor supply model with household production that generalizes an original model of Blundell … goods bought at the market with individuals' time. We apply our model to new and unique data on Dutch couples with children …. Our application uses a novel estimation strategy that builds upon the familiar two-stage allocation representation of the …

(1982). The results show that more than 50 percent of children aged 0-3 are queuing for child care slots, whereas only 10 … percent of children aged 4-6 years are queuing. For children in the younger age group who have working mothers, about 255 …

This paper studies the heterogeneity of the marginal propensity to consume out of wealth based on French household …

investigate this, we estimate an EASI demand system from German household data and a labour supply schedule, using wage data, and …

children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …