human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the gene pool. A key consequence of the trade-off faced by women is that … relative to remaining single, the greater the man’s human capital, and the lower the woman’s human capital. As a consequence … themselves. There is a mass of unmarried men at the bottom of the distribution of human capital, and a mass of single women at …

We present identification and estimation results for the 'collective' model of labour supply in which there are … discrete choices, censoring of hours and non-participation in employment. We derive the collective restrictions on labour … wage structure between men and women in the UK over the last two decades we estimate a collective labour supply model for …

Two of the earliest inventions of a human capital-intensive technology were for the production of personal internal …

. Uncertain returns to education, endogenous mortality or imperfect capital markets unambiguously increase child labour. When the …In this paper, we investigate the role of young adult mortality on child labour and educational decisions. We argue … absence of appropriate insurance mechanisms, the level of child labour is inefficient, but it can be too high or too low. It …

This paper combines income and expenditure with time use data to provide a unique picture of the time paths of labour … rises sharply with the amount of non collateral based borrowing. The household members jointly choose time paths of time use …, consumption and saving over their life cycle in the face of this capital market imperfection. This model explains the data much …

centrally important the relationship between productivity in household production and female labour supply really is, and how … importance of household production. In this paper we try to show how a simple model of household production can be used to help … guidance on this issue, resting as it does on models of the single person household. An old insight in the earlier public …

The aim of this paper is to explain why time use data are essential for analyzing issues of gender equity and the intra-household …. The first step in the exposition is to show that the neglect of these data in much of the literature on household behavior …, in both developed and developing economies, can be traced to unrealistic assumptions on domestic production and the …