The literature on household behavior contains hardly any empirical research on the withinhousehold distributional …

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 …

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

Joint household decision-making may be prevented by the incentives of individuals to withhold information or avoid … predicts that both information and discussion should raise enrollment, and nearly all intra-household experts we surveyed gave … by as much as 50%. We sketch an alternative model in which interventions that make household decision-making more joint …

household production, which includes previous analyses as special cases. In the general framework, where all utility yielding … commodities are produced through a combinatiion of market goods and household time, optimal taxation requires joint taxation of …

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

taxation ; household production ; public goods …

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 …