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 …

wage differences, variation in prices of bought-in inputs into household production in the form of child care, and domestic … productivity differences as determinants of across-household heterogeneity in second earner labour supply. The analysis highlights … specification of household time use widens the set of cases in which individual taxation is welfare-superior to joint taxation …

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 …

lifecycle collective model of the household, through which it characterizes behavior in three prominent alternative types of … contemporaneous and historical news affect household behavior. Our test permits heterogeneity in the degree of commitment across …

and share wealth. I show that, despite having standard exponential time preferences, the household is time … overconsumption by providing a way for members to lock-up wealth from each other. The household remains time-inconsistent, even when … it is possible for members to save separately, whenever intra-household relative-wealth shocks create the possibility …

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 …