asymmetric equilibrium featuring household specialization can arise. Examples where the asymmetric equilibrium is welfare …

a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor …

, desired working hours, and household debt, but have only small effects on expected spending. We provide correlational and … household exposure to stock market crashes for expectation formation …

In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for two-earner households. The … novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collective household model, where the internally produced goods and … are equally weighted in the household utility function; (3) Differences in the ratio of the partners' hourly wages are …

We consider a non-cooperative model of the household, in which the husband and wife decide on parental leave and the …

related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height …, single women have lower BMIs than women in other household relationships. While causal mechanisms may have changed over time …, there is a positive relationship between BMIs and household size …

also on the decisions of others. In the present article, we review the literature on decision making made by groups of the …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

quantify the importance of household-level insurance for marriage and divorce by exploiting an exogenous increase in the need …Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the … social insurance system, which acts as a substitute for within-household insurance against economic shocks. In this paper, we …