In this paper, we analyze the nature of intra-household allocations and commitment using unique panel data on … individual-specific within-household consumption expenditures and on time used for leisure, market production and home production …. Specifically we estimate a dynamic collective model of the household in which husbands and wives care about private consumption …

household chores. While the general results are maintained in households with a married couple present, in de jure female … simultaneously increasing boys' labour input in household chores. This puts into question the existence of gender preferences in …

household survey in Mozambique is used for this analysis. The main findings suggest that women's labor allocation to economic … activities is comparable to that of men. Household chores and care work are women's responsibility, which they perform with …

In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for two-earner households. The … novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collective household model, where the internally produced goods and … are equally weighted in the household utility function; (3) Differences in the ratio of the partners' hourly wages are …