. Higher-educated and older parents spend more time with their children. There are significant and positive correlations across … of the standard hypothesis that performing housework does not bring utility. Parents' market time responds positively to … to an increase in their wife's wage. Non-labour income reduces paid work by parents and increases their non-market time …

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 … individual utility functions and the household power weight distribution, which is parameterized per household. The model is …

wage. We find this for all household types; (7) The presence of(more) children reduces the hours of labor supplied by women … 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 …

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 …

the collective approach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costs of work. We …

This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or … not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill …

This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children …