This chapter surveys existing approaches to modeling labor supply and identifies important
gaps in the literature that could be addressed in future research. The discussion begins with …

After decades of study, the value of travel time remains incompletely understood and ripe for
further theoretical and empirical investigation. Research has revealed many regularities and …

Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, taking as
reference a perfectly competitive market in which losing a job is not a big deal. The …

We discuss the most popular static and dynamic models of household behavior. Our main
objective is to explain which aspects of household decisions different models can account …

This paper provides a theoretical framework for analyzing the impact of the marriage market
and divorce legislation on household labor supply. In our approach, the sex ratio in the …

We study how Americans respond to idiosyncratic and exogenous changes in household
wealth and unearned income. Our analyses combine administrative data on US lottery …

In a recent paper (Chiappori 1992), I proposed a model of labor supply based on a"
collective" representation of household behavior. In this framework, each household …

The paper reviews recent theory and empirical evidence testing unitary versus collective
models of the household. In contrast to the unitary model, the collective model posits that …

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 …

We propose a collective labor supply model with household production that generalizes a
model of Blundell, Chiappori, and Meghir (2005). Adults' preferences depend not only on …