This paper examines the literature on non-unitary models of household behaviour. These models explicitly postulate that the household is made up of several persons with different preferences. They can be classified into two categories. On the one hand, cooperative (or collective) models suppose...

The present paper examines the theory of non-cooperative models of labor supply. Firstly, we develop a general framework that contains the various labor supply models found in the literature as particular cases. Secondly, we derive the properties of testability and identifiability of these...

The literature on household behavior contains hardly any empirical research on the within-household distributional effect of tax-benefit policies. We simulate this effect in the framework of a collective model of labor supply when shifting from a joint to an individual taxation system in France....