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 … inequality was indeed more due to changes of household structure and employment behavior rather than changes in wages. Moreover …

in a household can be supported by self interest. Since the costs of raising children are unequally distributed among …

. Within each two-person household, externalities from the partner's commodity consumption and unpriced actions are allowed …. We investigate competitive market outcomes with an endogenous household structure in which no individual and no man …

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 …

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

portfolios, observed in the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for these countries. We then show that the … heterogeneity in household finances implies that responses of consumption to changes in the real interest rate and in house prices …