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

We develop a simple model of household time allocation decisions under strong functional form assumptions regarding … preferences and household production technology. We argue that the specification is general when allowing for unrestrictive forms … market hours and time spent in household production, we estimate the marginal distribution of male and female characteristics …

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 …

data from Germany on couples, we control for fixed household specific effects to address the concern that retirement … home production done by the partner. The fall in household income at retirement of one of the partners is largely … compensated by an increase in total household production. …

There is some controversy in the field of household economics regarding the efficiency of household decisions. We make … the point that a flexible specification of spousal preferences and the household production technology precludes the … possibility of using revealed preference data on household time allocations to determine the manner in which spouses interact …

results are mixed, showing some impact on household production. Simulations using GMM estimates of a Stone-Geary utility … function defined over time use suggest no effect on household production in either country. Estimation of a household model … when the other spouse's market work was permanently and exogenously reduced. -- time use ; household production ; freedom …

We formulate a model of household behavior in which cooperation is costly and in which these costs vary across … decisions are not. Small changes in state variables may result in large changes in labor supplies when the household switches … large gains in aggregate labor supply by adopting policies which promote cooperative household behavior. -- household time …