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

. Information structure and labor supply decisions follow the Mirrleesian tradition. However, while the household's total …

taxed. If, as seems reasonable on empirical grounds, we introduce production of household goods with close market …

wage differences, variation in prices of bought-in inputs into household production in the form of child care, and domestic … productivity differences as determinants of across-household heterogeneity in second earner labour supply. The analysis highlights … specification of household time use widens the set of cases in which individual taxation is welfare-superior to joint taxation …

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 …

population in the household then examine the determinants of the decision to supply labour. The fraction of home …-produced childcare to household childcare needs is considered to be a public good within the household, for which preferences are … of the choice of home childcare vs. labour supply. We are able to quantify each household's sensitivity to potential …

We provide a nonparametric 'revealed preference' characterization of rational household behavior in terms of the … nature of consumption externalities (positive or negative) in the intra-household allocation process is non-testable. The …, monotonicity is testable for the model that assumes all household consumption is public. -- Collective model ; consumption ; Pareto …

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