Empirical models of labour supply adopting the collective approach have commonly used the decentralized representation … maximization of household welfare rests on the convexity of the budget sets. However, both the actual tax systems and the tax … specification might provide a reasonable approximation to the current intra-household allocation choices under the current tax rule …

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 …

and resilience indicators are measured by a combination of the level of household incomes per capita and the degree of …

Mexico. Vulnerability and resilience are measured by a combination of the level of household incomes per capita and the … explanatory factors of vulnerability whereas education levels, dependency ratios and the age of the head of household are very …

primarily changes income and expenditure patterns, widowhood fundamentally changes the structure of the household. Beside high … consumption are lost. This paper applies the Lewbel and Pendakur (2008) collective household model to expenditure data on elderly … households in Switzerland. The findings suggest that between 40 and 50% of household resources are assigned to wives and both …

whether intra-household adaptation mechanisms differ by gender and by partnership status. The underlying method is a …

This paper builds on the existing literature about the distribution of financial resources within the household between … couple members. Using data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) we examine the ownership of, and amounts held in … savings, investments and debts by couple members, and how these vary by individual and household characteristics. A particular …

results are mixed, showing some impact on household production. Simulations using GMM estimates of a Stone-Geary utility … function defined over time use suggest no effect on household production in either country. Estimation of a household model … when the other spouse's market work was permanently and exogenously reduced. -- time use ; household production ; freedom …

individuals within the household. The main message is that distortionary indirect taxation can circumvent the agency problem of … the household. Essentially, taxation should discourage less the consumption of a certain group of goods: those for which …