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. …

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

are made by maximizing a weighted sum of the spouses' utilities; bargaining weights are given but specific to each couple …. Information structure and labor supply decisions follow the Mirrleesian tradition. However, while the household's total …

This paper proposes an extension of the collective model for labor supply developed by Chiappori, Fortin and Lacroix … (2002) to an intertemporal setting. We first develop a theoretical model to analyze the intra-household distribution of … do not reject the restrictions of the model, and point to the validity of the collective framework in an intertemporal …

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

the collective approach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costs of work. We … find that the collective model has different empirical outcomes of income sharing than a restricted model that imposes …

collective model framework (Chiappori et al.,2002). Using data from Time Use Surveys for Mexico (2009) and Colombia (2012), we … find evidence of Pareto-efficient labor supply decisions within households, as the collective rationality is not rejected … factors in the internal decision process of the couple. Our results suggest that the distribution of bargaining power within …

This paper proposes a dynamic structural model of labour market and childcare choices for couples within a collective … 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 …

countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the extent to which gender differences and life cycle variation in time use … phases that represent the key transitions in the life cycle of a typical household. Our contention is that, given the … policy. Before children arrive, the adult members of the household have high labour supplies and plenty of leisure. The …