Historically, in virtually all developed economies there seems to be clear evidence of an inverse relationship between female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last decade or so, the relationship across countries has been positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy...

This paper is concerned with modelling household decisions and the welfare effects of tax policy. It seeks to emphasise the importance of a model that incorporates household production and can take account of the evident female labour supply heterogeneity across two-parent families. If, after...

This paper extends the standard model of life cycle consumption, saving and labor supply in a number of directions. First, it argues that consumption should be defined as expenditure on household production as well as on market goods, that is, we are interested in life cycle profiles of full...