the household is an important factor that should be considered when analyzing household decisions. …

will devote to housework. However, when endogeneity of the uses of time are considered using the British Household Panel …

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 …

This paper studies household labor supply, within the context of an intertemporal collective model, and three prominent … all three alternatives based on how contemporary and historical changes to the economic environment affect household …

, and child care is offered, and explanations based on education, earnings, and household structure are presented, using …

intra-household non-commitment, limited commitment, and full commitment. It investigates whether, after controling for … supply and a positive impact on their spouses'. In addition, wives' past wage shocks also impact negatively household public …

This paper analyzes the intra-household distribution of wealth and welfare in the United States, within a theoretical … framework based on a collective model of labor supply, where household decisions are Pareto efficient, and spouses negotiate a … wives tend to be more altruistic in comparison to their husbands regarding the intra-household allocation of income, which …

(2002) to an intertemporal setting. We first develop a theoretical model to analyze the intra-household distribution of … setting. We show that wages are positively related to household labor supply, although cross and lagged effects show negative … correlates. Furthermore, the ability of wives to negotiate the intra-household allocation of non-labor income is mainly driven by …

lifecycle collective model of the household, through which it characterizes behavior in three prominent alternative types of … contemporaneous and historical news affect household behavior. Our test permits heterogeneity in the degree of commitment across …