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 …

The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living … earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model of the household with young children present, that this assumption is not … modelling and numerical simulations based on survey data, that household income is a poor indicator of household well-being. …