. This paper offers an alternative view by using a household model as the theoretical basis to explore the interconnectedness … associated with spousal commuting, household earnings, and wealth, while higher expenditures are linked to longer commutes, but …

Household collective models celebrate their thirtieth birthday. The collective approach constitutes, perhaps, the … to some excellent surveys of household collective models (Strauss et al., 2000; Vermeulen, 2002; Donni and Chiappori … papers, the collective framework has been used to provide theoretical results for a number of household issues; for example …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the … probability of marital disruption. In addition, the younger the children, the greater the deterrent effect. In contrast, we …

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 …

their children. Using data from the Multinational Time Use Study for the UK, we find positive intergenerational correlations … in housework for both parents, indicating that the more time parents devote to housework, the more time their children … will devote to housework. However, when endogeneity of the uses of time are considered using the British Household Panel …

This paper analyses the impact of current and past lottery wins on household labor supply in the United Kingdom using … data from the British Household Panel Survey 1997-2008. Estimating individual fixed-effects models, we show that male … (lottery wins worth more than £500), we find a compensation effect within the household, as the recipient's spouse increases …

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 …

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

and children in households surveyed in the eight waves of the European Community Household Panel-ECHP (1994-2001) for 14 …