results are mixed, showing some impact on household production. Simulations using GMM estimates of a Stone-Geary utility … function defined over time use suggest no effect on household production in either country. Estimation of a household model …

. First, it argues that consumption should be defined as expenditure on household production as well as on market goods, that … life cycle consumption behaviour are resolved. Secondly, we stress the importance of the heterogeneity of household …

, employment, employment with training and household production, according to a behavioral model calibrated to a large set of …

The conventional view is that Americans work longer hours than Germans and other Europeans but when time in household … work but German invest more in household production. This paper examines whether these differences in the allocation of … differentials, as economic theory suggests. Its analysis of unique time-use data reveals that the differences in time …

household members consume market goods with given household income. The ?costs of children? are perceived essentially as market … parental time, which must be diverted from alternative uses such as market work, other house-hold production activities and … particular, the differential incidence of child costs on adult members of the household. In this paper we first of all argue that …

additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment … duration and the split of time between household production and leisure. U.S. data for 2003-2006 show that almost none of the … lower amount of market work in areas of long-term high unemployment is offset by additional household production. In …

household production. Economic theory predicts that households with less money income will produce more goods at home. Thus … extended income, which includes the value of household production, should be more equally distributed than money income … to the weak correlation between money income and household production income. We also find that extended income is more …