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 …

affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 …

differences, variation in the price of child care and domestic productivity differences as determinants of across-household … heterogeneity in second earner labor supply, and of the resulting relationship between household income and the well-being of … household members. A central result is that taking account of a richer and more realistic specification of household time use …

determinants of across-household heterogeneity in second earner labour supply. We find that individual taxation is welfare …