that they can allocate to their own choice. Moreover, unless liquidfinancial wealth is too small, each household should … hold the maximum amount to which the tax incentives apply.In this paper, we analyze household data on participation in …

In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for twoearnerhouseholds. The … equally weighted in the household utility function; (3)Differences in the ratio of the partners' hourly wages are explanatory … for how individualutilities are weighted in the household utility function. (4) The female's preference forhousehold …

to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the … household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The results indicate that vulnerability is very sensitive to the time …

individual utility functions and the household power weight distribution, which is parameterized per household. The model is …In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to … describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household …

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 …

each car owned by the household -- own and cross-price effects of increases in fuel costs per kilometre. The empirical … results show that failure to capture substitution between cars within the household can result in substantial misspecification … the position of the most fuel efficient car in the household, suggesting that households" fuel efficiency choices are …