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 …

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 …

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 … the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce …

We discuss a simple model of choices of joint consumption by a working couple who place maintenance of their marriage … the marriage, in the case where preferences of partners are unknown, will be accepted. In this sense consumption is …

We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples, and test it in the context of international migration. Our … model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases in the earnings of the primary earner. The effect of … theory. Primary earners in couples are more strongly self-selected with respect to their income than singles, a novel result …

-cooperative model of household decision making to answer this question. We show that when women have lower wages than men, they may …

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 …

This paper studies the design of couples' income taxation. Consumption and labor supply decisions within the couple are … made by maximizing a weighted sum of the spouses' utilities; bargaining weights are given but specific to each couple. The … information structure and labor supply decisions follow the Mirrleesian tradition. However, while the household's total …

approach to modelling household decision taking, flexible enough to encompass non-cooperative behaviour and Pareto …This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of … the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to …