The liberalization of divorce laws has reduced the commitment value of marriage and household specialization. I examine … how the homemaking provision in family law that gives recognition to the contribution of homemakers in marriage in the … division of labor within the household. I develop a non-cooperative household model to analyze the effects of the provision on …

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature … suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while … spouses within each household, allowing for corner solutions and correlations in the unobservables across the system of six …

market promotions and terminations. Operating much like raises, such events have the potential to alter intra-household power … events. Power dynamics cannot, however, explain all the results. Supporting the sociological theory that partners may 'do …

population in the household then examine the determinants of the decision to supply labour. The fraction of home …-produced childcare to household childcare needs is considered to be a public good within the household, for which preferences are … of the choice of home childcare vs. labour supply. We are able to quantify each household's sensitivity to potential …

This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to a model in which a couple decides whether to marry or cohabit … in a household can be supported by self interest. Since the costs of raising children are unequally distributed among … the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce …

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 …

New methodology for producing employment microsimulations is introduced, with a focus on farms and household nonfarm … enterprises. Previous simulations have not dealt with the issue of reduced production in farm and nonfarm household enterprises … when household members are placed in paid employment. In this paper, we present a method for addressing the trade …