This paper explores the relationship between household type and asset accumulation. Households distinguish principally along standard demographic lines -whether they marry, divorce, seperate or become widowed. To accomplish this goal, we rely on two household surveys with high quality wealth...

Recent research on household behavior suggests that, ceteris paribus, a woman's "power" within a household influences consumption and time allocation choices. From an empirical point of view, a central stumbling block in this line of inquiry has been identification of sources of "power" that can...