An empirical model of a household's choice of activities
分析有学龄儿童的家庭如何同时决定参与劳动、志愿工作、民主集会和亲子休闲活动，发现母亲教育程度是重要影响因素。
Abstract This paper analyses how households of school‐age children choose to participate in the labour force, volunteer work, democratic assemblies, and child‐related leisure activities. Contrary to previous studies, the model presented in this paper treats all of these household's choice of activities involving time allocation decisions as simultaneously determined. The empirical section uses qualitative data estimation techniques which permit a wide range of joint and interaction effects among the variables of the model. The results confirm the importance of time‐opportunity cost variables as major determinants of household's choice of activities with the mother's education consituting a particularly important factor.