In the quantitative macro literature, single agent models are heavily used to explain "adult equivalent" household data, a common example being household consumption deflated by some form of equivalence scale. In this paper, we study differences between the consumption of single agent models and...

We document changes in female labor supply between 1983 and today in seven OECD countries. Based on micro data sets, we construct comparable measures of hours worked across time and space which incorporate both the extensive and intensive margins of female labor supply. We document trends in...