PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Donni, Olivier
AU  - Moreau, Nicolas
TI  - Collective Labor Supply
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.XLII.1.214
DP  - 2007 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 214--246
VI  - XLII
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XLII/1/214.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XLII/1/214.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2007 Jan 01; XLII
AB  - In Chiappori's (1988) collective model of labor supply, hours of work are supposed flexible. In many countries, however, male labor supply does not vary much. In that case, the husband's labor supply is no longer informative about the household decision process and individual preferences. To identify structural components of the model, additional information is needed. We thus consider an approach in which the wife's labor supply is expressed as a function of the household demand for one specific good. We demonstrate that the main properties of Chiappori's initial model are preserved and apply our results on French data.