There is some controversy in the field of household economics regarding the efficiency of household decisions. We make … the point that a flexible specification of spousal preferences and the household production technology precludes the … possibility of using revealed preference data on household time allocations to determine the manner in which spouses interact …

We develop a simple model of household time allocation decisions under strong functional form assumptions regarding … preferences and household production technology. We argue that the specification is general when allowing for unrestrictive forms … market hours and time spent in household production, we estimate the marginal distribution of male and female characteristics …

In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to … describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household … the main accent still lies on the development of theory. The novelty of this paper is that we empirically estimate the two …

In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to … describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household … the main accent still lies on the development of theory. The novelty of this paper is that we empirically estimate the two …

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 …

In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to … describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household … the main accent still lies on the development of theory. The novelty of this paper is that we empirically estimate the two …

pattern by the presence of two household goods and socially learned gender-specific comparative advantage in their home …

Economic theories of the household predict that increases in female relative human capital lead to decreases in female … household division of labor as an alternative explanation. We use the 2002 03 Spanish Time Use Survey (STUS) to explore the … presence of social norms associated to the household division of housework and childcare. First, we observe that wives that …

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 … compensated by an increase in total household production. …

This paper studies household labor supply, within the context of an intertemporal collective model, and three prominent … all three alternatives based on how contemporary and historical changes to the economic environment affect household …