Abstract
A home-production model is used to explain the allocation of time between leisure, work and home production. We show that differences in taxes alone explain to a great extent the time use patterns in a set of OECD countries once several key elasticities — the elasticity of substitution between market- and home-produced goods, the Frisch elasticity of labor supply, and the relative risk aversion — are set according to empirical evidence. We also show that a realistic calibration of these key elasticities results to be more important than introducing government expenditures substitutive for home-produced goods in order to bring the model's time use predictions in line with data. This is true even for Scandinavian countries, which had posed a challenge in previous studies.
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