, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they …

We consider a non-cooperative model of the household, in which the husband and wife decide on parental leave and the … increase in father’s childcare and housework time as much as 2-3 hours per day. …

differences, variation in the price of child care and domestic productivity differences as determinants of across-household … heterogeneity in second earner labour supply, and of the resulting relationship between household income and the wellbeing of … household members. A central result is that taking account of a richer and more realistic specification of household time use …

household production, which includes previous analyses as special cases. In the general framework, where all utility yielding … commodities are produced through a combinatiion of market goods and household time, optimal taxation requires joint taxation of …

, and at the parental side fathers take a more pivotal role in the early childhood care. In the present paper we develop a … one nonparental care option and both mothers and fathers contributing to the production of nonparental care. Even though …