Collective Labor Supply with Children

Posted: 15 Dec 2005 Last revised: 18 Nov 2008

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Richard W. Blundell

UCL; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Pierre-Andre Chiappori

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics

Costas Meghir

Yale University; Yale University - Cowles Foundation; Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS); National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Abstract

We extend the collective model of household behavior to allow for the existence of public consumption. We show how this model allows the analysis of welfare consequences of policies aimed at changing the distribution of power within the household. Our setting provides a conceptual framework for addressing issues linked to the targeting of specific benefits or taxes. We also show that the observation of the labor supplies and the household demand for the public good allow one to identify individual welfare and the decision process. This requires either a separability assumption or the presence of a distribution factor.

Suggested Citation

Blundell, Richard W. and Chiappori, Pierre-Andre and Meghir, Costas, Collective Labor Supply with Children. Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 113, December 2005, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=869752

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