This paper examines how Frisch labor supplies, and other structural components of the intertemporal model of labor supply, can be recovered from estimates obtained with the approach developed by Heckman and MaCurdy. -- labor supply ; Frisch ; life cycle ; identification

We consider the collective model of labor supply with marketable domestic production. We first show that, if domestic production is mistakenly ignored, the collectiveʺ indirect utilities that are retrieved from observed behavior will be unbiased if and only if the profit function is additive....

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 if and only if the profit function is additive....

There is a large empirical literature on policy measures targeted at children but surprisingly very little theoretical foundation to ground the debate on the optimality of the different instruments. In the present paper, we examine the merit of targeting children through two general policies,...