We extend the search-matching model of the marriage market of Shimer and Smith (2000) to allow for labor supply, home … estimate how much sorting results from time use specialization or homophilic preferences. We estimate how equilibrium marriage … formation affects the wage elasticities of market and non market hours. We estimate individuals’ willingness to pay for marriage …

In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to … describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household … the main accent still lies on the development of theory. The novelty of this paper is that we empirically estimate the two …

the collective household model, we examine the possibility that men within couples use polygyny as a threat to influence …

We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women's specialization in home …-based activities and that marriage decreases women's leisure. These effects are robust across specifications …

data from Germany on couples, we control for fixed household specific effects to address the concern that retirement … home production done by the partner. The fall in household income at retirement of one of the partners is largely … compensated by an increase in total household production. …

In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to … describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household … the main accent still lies on the development of theory. The novelty of this paper is that we empirically estimate the two …

In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to … describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household … the main accent still lies on the development of theory. The novelty of this paper is that we empirically estimate the two …

the collective approach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costs of work. We …

the collective approach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costs of work. We …