Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood … household structure is widely neglected. Societal trends like a decline in birth rate and an increase in the risk of divorce … paper is to quantify the proportion of changing household structures in the increase in inequality. We find that the rise in …

older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members …

to consume (MPCs). Our main contribution is to document how MPCs vary with household characteristics and prize size, and …

Finances. The household-level data allow us to study the joint distributions of household income and wealth since 1949. We … shift the wealth distribution because the composition and leverage of household portfolios differ systematically along the … all American households have less wealth today in real terms than the median household had in 1970 …

time to different activities. In order to do so, we empirically estimate a collective household labor supply model. The … main findings are that: (1) Leisure and household income are the most important variables in the utility function of the … male. (2) Leisure, total household production and total household production interacted with family size are important …

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 …