type="main" xml:lang="en" <p>The percentage of part-time workers in Italy is very low compared with most European countries. In this paper we try to contribute to an explanation. We use data on the employees of a large Italian company operating in the service sector, and apply a particular...</p>

The standard methods of measuring the cost of children are flawed because of the endogeneity of fertility decisions and because - even if they were exogenous - children bring (or may bring) utility to the household. This paper presents a simple structural model of household allocation of time...