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 …

Social Assistance, which provides a permanent universal household income floor, with a minor role for temporary earnings … social programs, savings and the labor supplies of all adult household members. The optimal policy mix focuses mainly on …-related Unemployment Insurance. Reflecting that married couples obtain intra-household insurance by making labor supply choices for both …

This paper studies the design of couples' income taxation when consumption and labor supply decisions within the couple …. Information structure and labor supply decisions follow the Mirrleesian tradition. However, while the household's total … welfare function we show that the expression for a spouses' marginal income tax rate includes a "Pigouvian" (paternalistic …

household savings, which are primarily financed through increased paternal labor supply. This is the first paper that highlights …

correlates. Furthermore, the ability of wives to negotiate the intra-household allocation of non-labor income is mainly driven by … (2002) to an intertemporal setting. We first develop a theoretical model to analyze the intra-household distribution of … sharing rule for non-labor income under a set of testable conditions. Second, using data from the Panel Study of Income …

small, about -0:04. While the wives' earnings gains recover only a tiny fraction of the household income loss, public …. The presence and ages of children in the household are crucial determinants of the wife's labor supply response. The most … explanation for the limited scope of intra-household insurance. …

The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living … modelling and numerical simulations based on survey data, that household income is a poor indicator of household well-being. … earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model of the household with young children present, that this assumption is not …

frictions that allows us to distinguish between different sources of risk and to estimate their effects. The sources of risk are … heterogeneity. Our model allows for four main social insurance programmes. In contrast to simpler models that attribute all income …. Estimates of productivity risk, once we control for employment risk and for individual labour supply choices, are substantially …

The impact that an unforeseen event has on household welfare depends on the extent to which household members can take … actions to mitigate the direct impact of the shock. In this paper, we use nine years of longitudinal data from the Household … Income Labour Dynamics of Australia (HILDA) survey to examine the impact of job displacement and serious health problems on …

diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines … transfers to affected families, we show that such transfers play a crucial role in smoothing income for these households and … in labor supply and income. Mental health and fertility effects are also observed but are likely not mediators for …