The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the …

in a household can be supported by self interest. Since the costs of raising children are unequally distributed among …, how many children to have and subsequently whether to stay together or separate. We make precise the idea that cooperation … effects of policy variables such as rights of access to children post-separation and wealth division/alimony rules, as well as …

This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of … household's preference ordering over the utility profiles of its members depends on exogenous variables, in particular wage … approach to modelling household decision taking, flexible enough to encompass non-cooperative behaviour and Pareto …

African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto … inefficiency of a household resource allocation does not however refute the hypothesis that it chooses this resource allocation as … if it maximises some form of household welfare function possessing the Pareto property. To refute that hypothesis it is …

African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto … inefficiency of a household resource allocation does not however refute the hypothesis that it chooses this resource allocation as … if it maximises some form of household welfare function possessing the Pareto property. To refute that hypothesis it is …

in a household can be supported by self interest. Since the costs of raising children are unequally distributed among …, how many children to have and subsequently whether to stay together or separate. We make precise the idea that cooperation … effects of policy variables such as rights of access to children post-separation and wealth division/alimony rules, as well as …

The interaction between investment in children’s education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the …