Bonnie and Clyde are working together. Suppose that their total profits are 170H, where H is the number of hours they work per year. Their utility functions are, respectively, Ug(CB, H = CB-0.01H² and UdCG H = Cc- 0.04H², where Cg and Care their private goods consumptions and His the number of hours they work per year. If they find a Pareto optimal choice of hours of work and income distribution, the number of hours they work per year is 1,700 2,400 850 1,600 750

Bonnie and Clyde are working together. Suppose that their total profits are 170H, where H is the number of hours they work per year. Their utility functions are, respectively, Ug(CB, H = CB-0.01H² and UdCG H = Cc- 0.04H², where Cg and Care their private goods consumptions and His the number of hours they work per year. If they find a Pareto optimal choice of hours of work and income distribution, the number of hours they work per year is 1,700 2,400 850 1,600 750

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