wage. We find this for all household types. (6) The presence of (more) children reduces the hours of labor supplied by … time to different activities. In order to do so, we empirically estimate a collective household labor supply model. The … main findings are that: (1) Leisure and household income are the most important variables in the utility function of the …

in a household can be supported by self interest. Since the costs of raising children are unequally distributed among …, how many children to have and subsequently whether to stay together or separate. We make precise the idea that cooperation … effects of policy variables such as rights of access to children post-separation and wealth division/alimony rules, as well as …

This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of … household's preference ordering over the utility profiles of its members depends on exogenous variables, in particular wage … approach to modelling household decision taking, flexible enough to encompass non-cooperative behaviour and Pareto …

The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the …

-curricular activities, on children's skill development. Our results indicate positive effects: both cognitive skills, measured by school … datasets as well as alternative estimation and identification strategies. The effects can be partially explained by increased …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

parental leave from 12 to 24 months for children born on July 1, 1990 or later. We use test scores from the Austrian PISA test …