Our study shows that the household production theory illuminates the behavior of households in the allocation of time … and consumption expenditures. Among the noteworthy findings derived from our data, the various household non-market time … rates for both young and elderly households reduces their time spent on household nonmarket activities, such as child care …

(HCA) decreases maternal employment in both the short and long term. The effects are large enough for the existence of home …

This paper examines the impact of actual subsidy receipt of single mothers on their joint employment and child care … employment while moving from parental and relative care to center care in the process …

by their skill level and the role that costs play in their work decision. After reviewing government child-care programs …

income and time prices affect time and goods input into this household-produced commodity. Focusing on these two years …, between which income and earnings inequality increased, allows examining how household production is affected by changing …

--and corresponding lapses in implicit childcare--provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment … employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women …-age children, and coincides with increased time spent engaging in childcare. Decomposing the gender gap in summer work …

the household division of labor. Specifically, we explore the hypothesis that incentive problems in the labor market … division of labor within the household, leading to a potentially self-fulfilling feedback mechanism. The workings of the labor … that higher effort should correspond to higher incentive pay. Household decisions are Pareto efficient, leading to a …

production. The distribution of the share of household income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp cliff at 0.5, which suggests …