Household decisions are profoundly shaped by a complex set of financial options due to Social Security rules … claimed. These rules influence optimal household asset allocation, insurance, and work decisions, given life cycle demographic …

A growing literature offers indirect evidence that the distribution of bargaining power within a household influences … decisions made by the household. The indirect evidence links household outcomes to variables that are assumed to influence the … distribution of power within the household. In this paper, we have data on whether a husband or wife in the Health and Retirement …

/divorce/remarriage, and household labor supply decisions. A key feature of the model is that women bear a larger share of the divorce burden …

Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element …, measures of inequality that ignore intra household allocations are both incomplete and misleading. We discuss determinants of … intrahousehold allocation of resources and welfare. We show how the sharing rule, which characterizes the within household …

We present a framework for the study of risk and return of household enterprise in developing economies. We make … in which each autarky household absorbs risk in isolation. The full risk-sharing benchmark delivers the prediction that … economy with autarky households predicts that overall fluctuation at the household level is the only concern. Our framework …

that the well-being benefits of marriage are short-lasting. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, we control …