marriage enhances investment in household public goods such as childrearing and home ownership and reduces the market labor …

others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from … falling expenditure share on household public goods, which endogenously makes household formation less beneficial and privacy …

decline we model households as collections of roommates who share the costs of household public goods. If private goods are …

spend the earnings from some plots under his control exclusively on household public goods, which in turn provides other … propensity to spend on household public goods than other household members.  The fact that the head of the household is usually …

decline we model households as collections of roommates who share the costs of household public goods. If private goods are …

some plots under his control exclusively on household public goods, which in turn provides other family members the … household public goods than other household members. The fact that the head of the household is usually male accounts for the …