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 … the main accent still lies on the development of theory. The novelty of this paper is that we empirically estimate the two …

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

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 …

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 …

application to experimental and household expenditure data illustrates the potential of our approach. …

We analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing …-adjusted social welfare functions in a general equilibrium structure mapping from tariff protection to household inequality. This …