We propose a novel structural method to empirically identify economies of scale in household consumption. We assume … behavior. The method imposes no parametric structure on household decision processes, accounts for unobserved preference … heterogeneity across individuals in different households, and requires only a single consumption observation per household. Our main …

We consider a non-cooperative model of the household, in which the husband and wife decide on parental leave and the …

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 extend the search-matching model of the marriage market of Shimer and Smith (2000) to allow for labor supply, home … estimate how much sorting results from time use specialization or homophilic preferences. We estimate how equilibrium marriage … formation affects the wage elasticities of market and non market hours. We estimate individuals’ willingness to pay for marriage …

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 …

This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these … investments in terms of childcare and household activities are likely to increase the marital surplus, they are consequently … relationship between divorce and marital investments is offered in terms of increasing intra-household time consumption …

the collective household model, we examine the possibility that men within couples use polygyny as a threat to influence …

This chapter surveys the voluminous literature on household formation and marriage markets in developing countries. We … market. We end the chapter with a discussion of marriage dissolution and other changes in household structure. Fertility … these factors are particularly important in poor countries, especially in a rural setting. We then focus on marriage, which …

of household behavior and marriage market equilibrium, it is perhaps not surprising that neither model provides good …. -- bilateral matching ; household time allocation ; Nash bargaining …We develop a simple model of household time allocation decisions under strong functional form assumptions regarding …