Most empirical studies of the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a … the collective approach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costs of work. We … estimates are used to evaluate various model outcomes, like the wage elasticities of labour supply and the impacts of wage …

This paper presents a model of consumption and household production that takes into account substitution between health …

human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the gene pool. A key consequence of the trade-off faced by women is that … relative to remaining single, the greater the man's human capital, and the lower the woman's human capital. As a consequence … themselves. There is a mass of unmarried men at the bottom of the distribution of human capital, and a mass of single women at …

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 …We develop a simple model of household time allocation decisions under strong functional form assumptions regarding …

preference for total household production is influenced by family size for the female but not for the male (6) Both males and …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 …

male; (2) Leisure, total household production and total household production interacted with family size are important … 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 …

on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We therefore model consumption and labor … preferences. -- Consumption ; labor supply ; intra-household allocation ; non-cooperative model ; public goods …

This article considers non-unitary models of household behavior. These models suppose explicitly that households … household behavior in these models are subject to constraints that differ from the traditional Slutsky conditions. In addition …, in a certain number of specific cases, the preferences of the different household members can be identified from …

We make the novel argument that time spent on household chores can possibly reflect racial discrimination based on … color. Our model, based on Becker's theory of allocation of time and his theory of marriage, recognizes that both intra-household … ; racial discrimination ; household chores ; compensating differentials …

Household Ethnicity Survey (CHES) to analyze coresidency patterns of rural elders in seven Chinese provinces with high …