This paper develops a methodology for estimating structural time-allocation models for self-employed households and applies it to peasant family labor supply behavior in the Peruvian Sierra. The oppurtunity costs of time, or shadow wages, of household workers are explicitly estimated from an agricultural production function. Using an instrumental variables procedure, the household's structural labor supply parameters are recovered from variation in these shadow wages. The empirical results are robust to a number of alternative specifications and diagnostic tests and lend support to the rational allocation of time by peasant households. Copyright 1993 by The Review of Economic Studies Limited.
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Volume (Year): 60 (1993) Issue (Month): 4 (October) Pages: 903-21 Download reference. The following formats are available: HTML
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