Time-use, domestic production and public goods in the intra-household decision process: Theoretical, empirical and experimental approaches
Vast efforts have recently been devoted to represent the family in a
realistic fashion and develop strategies for the identification of both the
individual preferences and the bargaining position of each member of the
family. In this perspective, ‘negotiation’ models appear to offer a convenient
setting. However, the existing studies typically neglect the presence of
children, assimilate non-market time to pure leisure and do not consider public
transfers, potentially leading to bias in the measurement of intra-family
welfare inequalities, and in estimates of the parameters of household decision
rules. Therefore, we propose to:- develop models
internalizing household production, non-participation in the labor market,
private and public consumption, and produce welfare inequality measures
accounting for every member in the household;- investigate econometric
methods which allow considering complex tax-benefit systems in a collective
framework, and avoiding the usual strong assumptions when estimating the
determinants of the consumption choices, and apply these models and methods to
various data sets for France, Germany, the UK and the US;- test for income pooling
on the basis of experiments, in order to gain deeper insights into the
determinants of household behavior.In a concluding study, we will summarize all results obtained in the
project for France and Germany, and, if possible, explain some of the
differences between the two countries as regards family issues.
Duration: 01.04.2009 - 18.08.2010
- Prof. Dr. Miriam Beblo, Berlin School of Economics and Law (Head of Coordination, Coordinator)
- Dr. Denis Beninger, ZEW (Head of Coordination, Coordinator)
- Prof. Olivier Donni, University of Cergy-Pontoise (Head of Coordination, Coordinator)
- Prof. Dr. Jörg Althammer, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
- Dr. Hélène Couprie, University of Cergy-Pontoise
- Prof. Stefan Hoderlein, Brown University
- Dr. Astrid Hopfensitz, Toulouse School of Economics
- Prof. Dr. Francois Laisney, ZEW
- Eleonora Matteazzi, University of Cergy-Pontoise
- Prof. Nicolas Moreau, University of the Réunion
- Dr. Holger Stichnoth, ZEW
- Dr. AbdelRahmen El Lahga, Tunis Business School, Le Bardo, TN
- Dr. Francois Cochard, University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, FR
- Dr. Olivier Bargain, University College Dublin, Dublin, IE
- Dr. Paul Pezanis-Christou, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, FR
- Prof. Dr. Notburga Ott, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, DE
- Prof. Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, FR
