countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the extent to which gender differences and life cycle variation in time use … phases that represent the key transitions in the life cycle of a typical household. Our contention is that, given the … policy. Before children arrive, the adult members of the household have high labour supplies and plenty of leisure. The …

We present a structural empirical model of collective household labour supply.Following recent developments in the … literature on collective household labour sup-ply our model allows for the nonparticipation decision, along with the choiceof … applicationof the collective household labour supply model. The model is estimated using apaneldata set of Dutch couples. The …

This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of … social welfare function, was a mistake. However, the idea following directly from the Nash bargaining models, that the … household's preference ordering over the utility profiles of its members depends on exogenous variables, in particular wage …

The collective model of labour supply opened the household black box and allowed for individual treatment of partners … account for multi-family household structure by borrowing from recent applications of the collective model and combining … estimation and calibration to identify the degree of resource sharing. We assume that each household is characterised by a …

We consider the collective model of labor supply with marketable domestic production. We first show that, if domestic … production is mistakenly ignored, the ?collective? indirect utilities that are retrieved from observed behavior will be unbiased …

-ante and cope with shocks ex-post. The first part looks at risk-coping strategies and analyzes the socio-economic consequences … stabilize their per-capita incomes after the death of a prime-age member. Yet, risk-sharing arrangements appear to spread the … part of the dissertation explores risk-management strategies and investigates the income diversification patterns of farm …

utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of companionable others inside and outside the household … propensities to engage in associative activity depend on the availability of Suitable Leisure Companions outside the household. Our …

households with two adults. We estimate a structural household utility model in which the marginal utilities of leisure and house … household and the two partners. We use a discrete choice model with choice sets of 2,401 points for each couple, distinguishing …

the collective approach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costs of work. We …. We find that the collective model has different empirical outcomes of income sharing than a restricted model that imposes … pooling of men's earnings and the household's non-labour income in the female's budget constraint. These differences in …

the collective approach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costs of work. We …. We find that the collective model has different empirical outcomes of income sharing than a restricted model that imposes … pooling of men's earnings and the household's non-labour income in the female's budget constraint. These differences in …