We propose a model of the household where the transmission mechanism between home appliances and women's labor supply is identical to the one in Greenwood et al. (2005b) with one important exception. We explicitly model firms' pricing and output choices in the appliances sector and thus, the...

Life-cycle employment profiles of married women born between 1940 and 1960 shifted upwards and became flatter. We calibrate a dynamic life-cycle model of employment decisions of married women to assess the quantitative importance of three competing explanations of the change in employment...

We propose a calibrated dynamic model of food consumption choices and body weight to study changes in daily caloric intake, weight, and the away-from-home share of calories consumed by adult men and women in the U.S. during the period between 1971 and 2006. Calibration reveals substantial...

"We propose a model of the household where the transmission mechanism between home appliances and women's labor supply is identical to the one in Greenwood et al. (2005b) with one important exception. We explicitly model firms' pricing and output choices in the appliances sector and thus, the...