TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Cherchye, Laurens
AU  - Vermeulen, Frederic
        TI  - Nonparametric Analysis of Household Labor Supply: Goodness-of-Fit and Power of the Unitary and the Collective Model
        PY  - 2006/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2004
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2004
        AB  - We compare the empirical performance of unitary and collective labor supply models, using representative data from the Dutch DNB Household Survey. We conduct a nonparametric analysis that avoids the distortive impact of an erroneously specified functional form for the preferences and/or the intrahousehold bargaining process. Our analysis focuses on the goodness-of-fit of the two behavioral models. To guarantee a fair comparison, we complement this goodness-of-fit analysis with a power analysis. Our results strongly favor the collective approach to modeling the behavior of multi-person households.
        KW  - nonparametric analysis
KW  - unitary model
KW  - collective model
KW  - labor supply
KW  - revealed preferences
        ER  -