population in the household then examine the determinants of the decision to supply labour. The fraction of home …-produced childcare to household childcare needs is considered to be a public good within the household, for which preferences are … of the choice of home childcare vs. labour supply. We are able to quantify each household's sensitivity to potential …

We develop a simple model of household time allocation decisions under strong functional form assumptions regarding … preferences and household production technology. We argue that the specification is general when allowing for unrestrictive forms … market hours and time spent in household production, we estimate the marginal distribution of male and female characteristics …

idiosyncratic shocks are experienced at the individual level, but responses to shocks can encompass the whole household …. Understanding and accurately modeling these responses is essential to the analysis of intra-household allocations, especially labor … disability and health status to develop a life-cycle framework which rationalizes observed responses of household members to …

joint consumption. In this paper, we extend the collective model of household consumption to recover mother's, father's and … household resources, though not enough to avoid a very large extent of child poverty compared to what is found in traditional … have more command over household resources. Baseline results on children's shares are robust to using alternative …

to getaccess to resources without support from unemployment compensation. Analysing a household survey from 1995, we find … that the household formation response of the unemployed is the critical way in which they assure access to resources. In … particular, unemployment delays the setting up of an individual household of young people, in some cases by decades. It also …

technique, I build a model of household bargaining and child health development with perceptions of women regarding wife … women's participation in decisions regarding purchases of household consumption goods help to improve child health outcomes … domestic violence laws, which protect women from physical and sexual abuse in the household. …

to get access to resources without support from unemployment compensation. Analysing a household survey from 1995, we … find that the household formation response of the unemployed is the critical way in which they assure access to resources …. In particular, unemployment delays the setting up of an individual household of young people, in some cases by decades …

We compute a stochastic household forecast for the Netherlands by the random share method. Time series of shares of … persons in nine household positions, broken down by sex and five-year age group for the years 1996-2010 are modelled by means … of time indices for each household position for men and women. We model these time indices as a Random Walk with Drift …

There is some controversy in the field of household economics regarding the efficiency of household decisions. We make … the point that a flexible specification of spousal preferences and the household production technology precludes the … possibility of using revealed preference data on household time allocations to determine the manner in which spouses interact …

This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his … spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that spousal work status may be correlated with … resources yield greater bargaining power, I find that the spouse of the head of household is more likely to be involved in …