In this paper we examine if partners in households coordinate their working times. Also we examine how this coordination influences the (in)formal demand for child care and the time spent on joint activities. The activities that we distinguish are the time that partners spent together, spent...

In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for two-earner households. The novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collective household model, where the internally produced goods and externally purchased goods are assumed to be public....

Back to overview Collective Labor Supply and Housework with Non-Participation of Women in Paid Labor(with B. van Praag and H. Maassen van den Brink)We estimate a collective time allocation model, where two-earner households behave as if the spouses maximize a household utility function, and...