Au cours des 25 dernières années, les hommes se sont davantage impliqués dans l'éducation des enfants, tandis que leur participation dans les autres tâches domestiques est restée stable. Les femmes ont également consacré davantage de temps aux activités parentales mais sensiblement...

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce more costly. We exploit the richness of pre- and post-marital information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79, for the United States, to investigate the relation...

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce more costly. We exploit the richness of pre- and post-marital information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79, for the United States, to investigate the relation...

This paper investigates whether unemployment and insecure employment periods merely delay fertility or also impact on completed fertility in France. It analyses both the timing of first childbearing and the fertility reached at age 40. Different indicators of declining employment security are...

Parental time is usually the most evenly shared part of domestic time. Does this mean that the time spent by the father or mother is substitutable or complementary? We tested these hypotheses in the context of an economic shock such as unemployment. Using a bivariate tobit model on the French...

This paper presents new general results in collective models with household production. We show that the identification of the sharing rule, obtained in Chiappori, Fortin and Lacroix (2002) using a standard labor supply model, can be extended to a model including household production, thus based...