The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living … earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model of the household with young children present, that this assumption is not … modelling and numerical simulations based on survey data, that household income is a poor indicator of household well-being. …

The aim of this paper is to explain why time use data are essential for analyzing issues of gender equity and the intra-household … first step in the exposition is to show that the neglect of these data in much of the literature on household behavior, in …

wage differences, variation in prices of bought-in inputs into household production in the form of child care, and domestic … productivity differences as determinants of across-household heterogeneity in second earner labour supply. The analysis highlights … specification of household time use widens the set of cases in which individual taxation is welfare-superior to joint taxation …

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 …

phases that represent the key transitions in the life cycle of a typical household. Our contention is that, given the … policy. Before children arrive, the adult members of the household have high labour supplies and plenty of leisure. The … ; labour supply ; household taxation ; life cycle …