This paper investigates the determinants of female autonomy in Indonesia using the 2000 Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS3). We consider the role of kinship norms and the effect of labor force participation on female autonomy. Our measure of autonomy is based on self-reported answers to an array of questions relating to decision making authority in the household. They include economic and chi...

This paper aims to examine the roles and relations of women men in processing sector tuna value chain General Santos City, Philippines. Based on household survey, focus group discussions key informant interviews study reveals gender division labor canning, frozen value-adding (TVAP). Women are assigned tasks that require more attention details thoroughness while do physically demanding mechanic...

We estimate a collective time allocation model, where Dutch, Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish households behave as if both spouses maximize a household utility function. We assume that paid labor and housework are the endogenous choice variables and furthermore consider household production. Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish women differ from Dutch women because they value (joint) household prod...

In this paper, I examine the importance of declining economic conditions in school attendance decisions for households with teenagers aged 12–17 in Costa Rica. I estimate a reduced-form model for school attendance that includes variables to measure household labor market integration, other household factors, teenager characteristics, regional effects and year effects. The year effects — to meas...

A model of how personality traits affect household time and resource allocation decisions and wages is developed and estimated. In the model, households choose between two behavioral modes: cooperative or noncooperative. Spouses receive wage offers and allocate time to supplying labor market hours and to producing a public good. Personality traits, measured by the so-called Big Five traits, can...

Normative Evaluation of Tax Policies: From Households to Individuals We analyze the impact on French couples of a tax policy change – the introduction of a family tax credit – using jointly a collective model of household labor supply and a tax-benefit microsimulation program. In a first step, we suggest a larger interpretation of labor supply behaviors which represent a general concept of ‘eff...

The farm household model has played a central role in improving the understanding of small-scale agricultural households and non-farm enterprises. Under the assumptions that all current and future markets exist and that farmers treat all prices as given, the model simplifies households' simultaneous production and consumption decisions into a recursive form in which production can be treated as...

This study applies transactive memory systems (TMS) as the mechanism connecting division of labor with team learning activities. A field study was conducted to verify and refine this framework and to provide potential theoretical explanations for the influences of division of labor at organizational level on its NPD teams’ learning activities. Several propositions derived from this field study ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on families' lives, with parents all over the world struggling to meet increased demands of housework, childcare and home-schooling. Much additional burden been shouldered by women, particularly in countries traditionally uneven division household labor. Yet increase remote work from home since also potential paternal involvement family life thus ...