Nonparametric Analysis of Household Labor Supply: Goodness of Fit and Power of the Unitary and the Collective Model

Laurens Cherchye and Frederic Vermeulen

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, vol. 90, issue 2, 267-274

Abstract: 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 multiperson households. Copyright by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Date: 2008
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Working Paper: Nonparametric Analysis of Household Labor Supply: Goodness-of-Fit and Power of the Unitary and the Collective Model (2006)
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