Collective Labor Supply with Children
将集体家庭行为模型扩展到包含公共消费,分析旨在改变家庭内部权力分配的政策对福利的影响,并说明如何通过观察劳动供给和公共品需求来识别个人福利和决策过程。
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.