There is some controversy in the field of household economics regarding the efficiency of household decisions. We make … the point that a flexible specification of spousal preferences and the household production technology precludes the … possibility of using revealed preference data on household time allocations to determine the manner in which spouses interact …

of household behavior and marriage market equilibrium, it is perhaps not surprising that neither model provides good …We develop a simple model of household time allocation decisions under strong functional form assumptions regarding … preferences and household production technology. We argue that the specification is general when allowing for unrestrictive forms …

the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are … regressors. This result is confirmed when we account for unobserved heterogeneity at the household level, exploiting the presence …

color. Our model, based on Becker's theory of allocation of time and his theory of marriage, recognizes that both intra-household …We make the novel argument that time spent on household chores can possibly reflect racial discrimination based on … bargaining and hedonic marriage markets operating with the help of an implicit price mechanism can lead to a premium for those …

We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women’s specialization in home …-based activities and that marriage decreases women’s leisure. These effects are robust across specifications. …

that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this …, but only for childless couples. Work timing also influences the joint time that is spent on household chores, but the …

marriage breakdown rates. We use this fundamental change in the Irish society as a natural experiment. We follow a difference … driven by selection and are robust to several specification checks, including the introduction of household fixed effects and …

We empirically study the determinants of intra-household decision power with respect to economic and financial choices … using a suitable direct measure provided in the 1989-2010 Bank of Italy Survey of Household Income and Wealth. Focusing on a … sample of couples, we evaluate the effect of each spouse's characteristics, household characteristics, and background …

This paper studies the effects of different income transfers on individual welfare, in both marriage and divorce … losses derived from the marriage. We have also found that the donor of an intergenerational transfer can behave in a …

This paper analyzes the causal relationships between marriage and subjective well-being in a longitudinal data set … spanning 17 years. We find evidence that happier singles opt more likely for marriage and that there are large differences in … the benefits from marriage between couples. Potential, as well as actual, division of labor seems to contribute to spouses …