This paper analyzes the intra-household distribution of wealth and welfare in the United States, within a theoretical … framework based on a collective model of labor supply, where household decisions are Pareto efficient, and spouses negotiate a … wives tend to be more altruistic in comparison to their husbands regarding the intra-household allocation of income, which …

Are two parents and single parents allocating household resources to children in the same way? Which factors affect … intra-household inequality? Do mothers re-distribute more income to children as they are more empowered? We focus on child …) we analyze intra-household behavior over three different socio-economic contexts. We estimate a collective quadratic …

individuals' bargaining power within a household, hypothesizing that the more generous social welfare system and more egalitarian … preferences regarding household public goods, to gendered notions of time use, and to censoring. Our results are generally …

with household bargaining explanations. For couples with children, improved women’s household bargaining position is …