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 … male. (2) Leisure, total household production and total household production interacted with family size are important …

differences, variation in the price of child care and domestic productivity differences as determinants of across-household … heterogeneity in second earner labor supply, and of the resulting relationship between household income and the well-being of … household members. A central result is that taking account of a richer and more realistic specification of household time use …

to analyze the interaction between public policy and household labor supply and fertility decisions. The model …

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 …