suggest that if women cannot make independent choices about household resource use, public policy may not be able to exploit …This paper examines whether an intra-household externality prevents adoption of a technology with substantial … implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision …

We study the dynamic relationship between women's intra-household reputation and investment decisions. We consider …---we call this the intra-household sunk cost effect. These dynamics have important implications for women's well-being as well … household investments delegated to the wife in settings where wives perceived to be savvy investors by their husbands are …

The purpose of this paper is to study the joint determination of gender differentials in labor market outcomes and in … the household division of labor. Specifically, we explore the hypothesis that incentive problems in the labor market … amplify differences in earnings due to gender differentials in home hours. In turn, earnings differentials reinforce the …

population that were household heads rose from 29.5 to 36.3. While some of this increase was due to the maturing of the"baby boom … sharply for the under 34 population. This paper explains household formations due to changes in headship rates in terms of …

as well. Since the proportion of women in the labor force has been rising, the average amount of time input to household … tasks by all women has been declining over the last 50 years. It is valuable to analyze this in the household production …The amount of time married women spend in workforce has increased dramatically in the last thirty years. This increase …

took place in the dispersion of fertility among these women: the percentage of women with, say, seven or more children …

has produced a set of conflicting results. Does household electrification lead to measurable gains in living standards or … connect for free. We conclude that access to household electrification alone is not enough to drive meaningful gains in …

household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the … number of adults in a household have fallen dramatically. We develop a simple theory of household size where living with … others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from intra …

Household economies of scale arise when households with multiple members share public goods, making larger households … better off at lower per capita expenditures. While estimates of household economies of scale are critical for measuring … income and living standards, we do not know how these scale economies change over time. I use American household expenditure …