The paper analyses the impact of the German tax, social security and benefit system on the labour supply of married women. It is based on a comprehensive microsimulation model for individual income taxes, social security contributions and tranfers, and on a microeconometric labour supply model...

We develop a theoretical model for the intra-household allocation of time and consumption. The model distinguishes between the partners? joint and private leisure time. We estimate the parameters of our model on a Danish time use survey with information on time allocation and expenditures. The...

This paper studies the dynamic relationship between parental labor supply, children's cognitive development and intra-household bargaining power. To do so, I construct a model that incorporates preference heterogeneity across and within households, a constrained cooperative bargaining framework...