in a household can be supported by self interest. Since the costs of raising children are unequally distributed among …

male. (2) Leisure, total household production and total household production interacted with family size are important … time to different activities. In order to do so, we empirically estimate a collective household labor supply model. The … main findings are that: (1) Leisure and household income are the most important variables in the utility function of the …

determinants of across-household heterogeneity in second earner labour supply. We find that individual taxation is welfare …

importance of household production and some of the implications of its neglect in modelling households. Above all, the aim is to …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 …

that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this study … for childless couples. Work timing also influences the joint time that is spent on household chores, but the effect is …

allocation between market work and providing a household public good. We find that the optimal structure of differential taxation … by gender is solely determined by spouses' relative marginal rates of substitution between the public household good and … valuation of the public household good should be taxed at a higher rate. If these valuations are identical, a comparative …

family taxation using a household economics approach to behavior; the nature of the winning policy is found to depend on …