This study investigates how spouses' cultural backgrounds mediate the role of intra-household bargaining in the labor … supply decisions of foreign-born and US-born couples, in a collective-household framework. Using data from the 2000 US Census …

the household is an important factor that should be considered when analyzing household decisions …

population in the household then examine the determinants of the decision to supply labour. The fraction of home …-produced childcare to household childcare needs is considered to be a public good within the household, for which preferences are … of the choice of home childcare vs. labour supply. We are able to quantify each household's sensitivity to potential …

Joint household decision-making may be prevented by the incentives of individuals to withhold information or avoid … predicts that both information and discussion should raise enrollment, and nearly all intra-household experts we surveyed gave … by as much as 50%. We sketch an alternative model in which interventions that make household decision-making more joint …

(2002) to an intertemporal setting. We first develop a theoretical model to analyze the intra-household distribution of … setting. We show that wages are positively related to household labor supply, although cross and lagged effects show negative … correlates. Furthermore, the ability of wives to negotiate the intra-household allocation of non-labor income is mainly driven by …

small, about -0:04. While the wives' earnings gains recover only a tiny fraction of the household income loss, public …. The presence and ages of children in the household are crucial determinants of the wife's labor supply response. The most … explanation for the limited scope of intra-household insurance. …

We study the effectiveness of intra-household insurance among married couples when the husband loses his job due to a … gains recover only a tiny fraction of the household income loss and, in the short-term, public transfers and taxes are a … more important form of insurance. We show that the presence of children in the household is a crucial determinant of the …