This paper analyzes the intra-household distribution of wealth and welfare in the United States, within a theoretical … framework based on a collective model of labor supply, where household decisions are Pareto efficient, and spouses negotiate a … correlation between individual wages and labor supply, while cross-wages go in the opposite direction. Additionally, we find that …

when relative education of wife increases and when relative potential wages of wives increase. These results are consistent … with household bargaining explanations. For couples with children, improved women’s household bargaining position is …

Models of the agricultural household have traditionally relied on assumptions regarding the complementarity or … pattern of labor supply adjustments across household members and productive activities following acute sickness. In particular …, we find that sick and healthy household members both shift labor away from self-employment and into farming when the sick …

relative wages on labor supply. They test the hypothesis that, ceteris paribus, making a given wage high (low) relative to …

households over time. To investigate this hypothesis, we incorporate heterogeneous agents into a household model of labor supply …

households over time. To investigate this hypothesis, we incorporate heterogeneous agents into a household model of labor supply …

teleworkers spend less time on commuting and grooming activities but more time on leisure and household production activities and …

Resource shares, defined as the fraction of total household spending going to each person in a household, are important … is measured typically at the household level, and many goods are jointly consumed, so that individual-level consumption …

time on household production activities. We do not find differences in workers’ weekly hours by teleworker status, but male …