We discuss the most popular static and dynamic models of household behavior. Our main
objective is to explain which aspects of household decisions different models can account …

How much income would a woman living alone require to attain the same standard of living
that she would have if she were married? What percentage of a married couple's …

In this chapter, we review the evidence on retirement and study the role of incentives in the
retirement decision. The key patterns of withdrawal from the labor market are presented and …

Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they
miss an important element of the distribution of welfare that can vary dramatically depending …

The encounter between microeconometric models of labour supply and the microsimulation
approach is the result of a long process. Large microsimulation models, as originally …

Este reporte plantea una agenda de crecimiento para los países de la región andina
basada en la productividad y la inversión. Ello parte por identificar los principales síntomas …

We present a novel identification strategy for a collective labor supply model that allows for
complementarities in leisure (ie, individuals may enjoy leisure more in company of their …

Household collective models celebrate their thirtieth birthday. The collective approach
constitutes, perhaps, the microeconomics topic that has produced the largest number of …

We apply the collective consumption model of Browning et al.(2010) to analyse economic
well-being and poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a …

An empirical evaluation is presented of two competing flexible labour supply models. The
first is a standard unitary model, while the second is based on the collective approach to …