In Canada, a policy aiming at helping single parents on social assistance become selfreliantwas implemented on an experimental basis. The Self-Sufficiency Entry Effects Demonstrationrandomly selected a sample of 4,134 single parents who had applied for welfare betweenJanuary 1994 and March 1995....

This paper proposes a test of the collective model of the household behavior. Theapplied model admits both interior and corner solutions on working hours (Donni (2003)).Each household member has his or her individual preferences; the household choices arePareto optimal and defined by the sharing...