Labor supply, home production, and welfare comparisons

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Donni, Olivier
• 署名单位: CY Cergy Paris Universite
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2008.01.003
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 1720-1737
• 关键词: household; Collective model; labor supply; home production; welfare analysis; identification

摘要

We consider the collective model of labor supply with marketable domestic production. We first show that, if domestic production is mistakenly ignored, the 'collective' indirect utility functions that are retrieved from observed behavior will be unbiased if and only if the retrieved from observed behavior will be unbiased if and only if the profit function is additive. Otherwise, in the non-additive case, the direction and the size of the bias will depend on the complementarity-substitutability of spouses' time inputs in the production process. We then show that, even if domestic labor supply functions are not observed, valid welfare comparisons are possible. This identification result generalizes that in Chiappori [Chiappori, P.A., 1992. Collective labor supply and welfare. Journal of Political Economy 100, 437-467]. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.