externalities in leisure. In this study, we investigate how retirement affects the hours of leisure together of individuals in a … effect of retirement on hours of leisure separate and together of individuals in a couple. We find that the retirement … retirement of the husband significantly increases own hours of leisure of the husband but it does not increase joint leisure …

general externalities with respect to spouses? leisure. Preferences and the intrahousehold bargaining process are identified … worked) and the claiming decision for social security benefits. We apply the model to American households coming from the … first five waves of the Health and Retirement Study. We also provide model simulations for two widely discussed reform …

employed. Observed covariates including wages and retirement benefits help to explain these patterns, but unobserved … preferences for shared leisure also appear to play an important role. …

from the five available waves of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is used to investigate if the dynamics introduced by … sources of dynamics and correlation in a couple?s decision making. First, strong true state-dependence is found and results in … indirect effects of social security and pension incentives through complementarity in leisure. Second, the Spouse Allowance …

Private wealth holdings are likely to become an increasingly important determinant in the job exit decision of elderly … important to include a rich set of observed characteristics in an empirical model for retirement in order to measure the …

individuals' bargaining power within a household, hypothesizing that the more generous social welfare system and more egalitarian … posit that leisure time will be more sensitive to power considerations than housework time which may be more influenced by … preferences regarding household public goods, to gendered notions of time use, and to censoring. Our results are generally …

The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision …

externalities in leisure. In this study, we investigate how retirement affects the hours of leisure together of individuals in a … effect of retirement on hours of leisure separate and together of individuals in a couple. We find that the retirement … retirement of the husband significantly increases own hours of leisure of the husband but it does not increase joint leisure …

We analyze how sexual orientation is related to household savings using 2000 US Census data, and find that gay and … lesbian couples own significantly more retirement income than heterosexuals, while cohabiting heterosexuals save more than … their married counterparts. In a household savings model, we interpret this homosexual-specific differential as due to the …