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 …

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 …

Norwegian household data for 1994. For any given tax rule, the estimated model can be used to simulate the choices made by …

maximization of household welfare rests on the convexity of the budget sets. However, both the actual tax systems and the tax … specification might provide a reasonable approximation to the current intra-household allocation choices under the current tax rule …

study household savings and expenditure adjustment from an unexpected, large-scale and rapidly evolving political shock that …

In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for two-earner households. The … novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collective household model, where the internally produced goods and … are equally weighted in the household utility function; (3) Differences in the ratio of the partners' hourly wages are …