The aim of this paper is to explain why time use data are essential for analyzing issues of gender equity and the intra-household … first step in the exposition is to show that the neglect of these data in much of the literature on household behavior, in …

child labor supply to an increase in the relative price of a primary export product varies with a child's household … work. Thus, household composition attributes that are associated with higher levels of child labor are also associated with …

The authors use the collective model of the household and show, theoretically, that as the woman's power rises, child … labor will initially fall, but beyond a point it will tend to rise again. A household with a balanced power structure …

The collective approach to household behavior relaxes the restrictive features of the unitary model by specifying … household welfare as a weighted combination of the individuals' utilities. But the weights are assumed fixed or exogenous to the … and simultaneously estimated with the household outcomes. The authors present Nepalese evidence that suggests that a woman …

The authors compare three approaches to linking representative-household macro models with micro household income data …