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. …

determinants of across-household heterogeneity in second earner labour supply. We find that individual taxation is welfare …

differences, variation in the price of child care and domestic productivity differences as determinants of across-household … heterogeneity in second earner labour supply, and of the resulting relationship between household income and the wellbeing of … household members. A central result is that taking account of a richer and more realistic specification of household time use …

earnings. This paper argues against this direction of reform on the grounds that it is based on a model of household behaviour …

household production and formal child care to the wage rate, the price of child care, taxes, benefits and child care subsidies …. To account for the non-convex nature of the budget sets and, possibly, the household technology, a discrete choice model … is used. The model is estimated using the HILDA dataset, a rich household survey of the Australian population, which …

labour earnings. This paper argues against this direction of reform on the grounds that it is based on a model of household …

wage differences, variation in prices of bought-in inputs into household production in the form of child care, and domestic … productivity differences as determinants of across-household heterogeneity in second earner labour supply. The analysis highlights … specification of household time use widens the set of cases in which individual taxation is welfare-superior to joint taxation …