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 …We analyse the effects of retirement of one partner on home production by both partners in a couple. Using longitudinal …

-mandatory retirement savings. To answer this question we analyze the intra-household allocation of retirement savings between partners in … of household decision making can thus be rejected with respect to retirement savings. … correct for some parts of household savings, we question the correctness of the unitary model with respect to non …

The process of industrialization was accompanied by the switch from household production to firm production. The …

We analyze the forces that can generate retirement in different versions of standard life cycle models of labor supply …. While nonconvexities in production can generate retirement, we show that the size of nonconvexities needed increases sharply … models imply a large increase in time devoted to home production at retirement. This is contrary to what is found in the ATUS …

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 …