Since the late 1970s, the price indices underlying the poverty lines in India have been updated using aggregate indices … consumption survey data. We propose an alternative approach that identifies poverty from consumer behaviour, based on the notion … higher levels of poverty in eastern India, and generally, smaller reductions in poverty from 2005 to 2010. Our poverty …

This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to a model in which a couple decides whether to marry or cohabit … in a household can be supported by self interest. Since the costs of raising children are unequally distributed among …

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 …

sufficient conditions for the existence of competitive equilibria with endogenous household formation and public choice …

with resources (commodity bundles) and shares of firm ownership. Household members are characterized by individual … preferences, possibly with intra-household consumption externalities. Household decisions adhere to the collective rationality …