We revisit the prominent finding that women's incomes are disproportionally often observed just below the income of … misreporting accounts for the discontinuity in the distribution of women's relative incomes just below the point where a woman … outearns her partner. This misreporting is best explained by the role of gender norms in individuals' self-portrayals and self-perception. …

Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of … a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor …

We consider a non-cooperative model of the household, in which the husband and wife decide on parental leave and the … sufficiently low gender wage gap), Intermediate-gap couples (with an intermediate gender wage gap) and high-gap couples (with a … sufficiently high gender wage gap). Our model predicts that while egalitarian couples never specialize and always share home …

pulls many households supporting them into poverty. We also show that the household formation responses draw some unemployed … to getaccess to resources without support from unemployment compensation. Analysing a household survey from 1995, we find … that the household formation response of the unemployed is the critical way in which they assure access to resources. In …

economic conditions during economic development. However, throughout US economic development, height data by gender have been … counterparts. Gender collectively had the greatest explanatory effect associated with stature, followed by age and nativity …

This paper studies the impact of tax incentives on economic behavior within the household. We focus on an Italian tax … second-earner women adjust their income to benefit from the tax credit, while second-earner men do not. Second-earner women … holding more conservative gender norms are the ones who mostly reduce their income. This suggests that tax policies can …

asymmetric equilibrium featuring household specialization can arise. Examples where the asymmetric equilibrium is welfare …

Collective consumption decisions taken by the members of a household may prove inefficient. The impact on market … performance depends on whether household inefficiencies are caused by inefficient net trades with the market or by inefficient …