We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study in order to quantify the economy-wide monetary gains achieved by household …-size economies due to within-household sharing of goods by individuals living in multimember households. In most countries out of the … twenty countries we examine, we observe a decline in monetary gains achieved by household-size economies over time. This …

Most empirical studies of the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a … the collective approach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costs of work. We … estimates are used to evaluate various model outcomes, like the wage elasticities of labour supply and the impacts of wage …

Most empirical studies of the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a … the collective approach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costs of work. We … estimates are used to evaluate various model outcomes, like the wage elasticities of labour supply and the impacts of wage …

of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model … to an increase in their wife's wage. Non-labour income reduces paid work by parents and increases their non-market time …

household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this … priori. We then use data from the 2012 Indian Human Development Survey to create a standard household-based MPIs closely … higher when using the household-based measure. Similarly, the age differentials in poverty are much larger using the …

This paper presents a model of consumption and household production that takes into account substitution between health …

human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the gene pool. A key consequence of the trade-off faced by women is that … relative to remaining single, the greater the man's human capital, and the lower the woman's human capital. As a consequence … themselves. There is a mass of unmarried men at the bottom of the distribution of human capital, and a mass of single women at …

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature … suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while … spouses within each household, allowing for corner solutions and correlations in the unobservables across the system of six …