the collective approach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costs of work. We …

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 … male; (2) Leisure, total household production and total household production interacted with family size are important …

In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to … describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household … individual utility functions and the household power weight distribution, which is parameterized per household. The model is …

In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for twoearnerhouseholds. The … equally weighted in the household utility function; (3)Differences in the ratio of the partners' hourly wages are explanatory … for how individualutilities are weighted in the household utility function. (4) The female's preference forhousehold …

the collective approach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costs of work. We … pooling of men's earnings and the household's non-labour income in the female's budget constraint. These differences in …

We present a structural empirical model of collective household labour supply.Following recent developments in the … literature on collective household labour sup-ply our model allows for the nonparticipation decision, along with the choiceof … applicationof the collective household labour supply model. The model is estimated using apaneldata set of Dutch couples. The …