We consider a non-cooperative model of the household, in which the husband and wife decide on parental leave and the …

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 …

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 …

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

Most equivalence scales which are applied in research on poverty and inequality do not depend on income, although there … differing assessments of poverty and inequality under quite general conditions. German microdata will be used to demonstrate and …

Empirically analyzing household behavior usually relies on informal data preprocessing. That is, before an econometric … German micro-data on household expenditure to estimate equivalence scales as a specific example. Our results show that …

geographical conditions) do not show a significant effect of religiosity captured by a household's spending on religious products …

The literature on household behavior contains hardly any empirical research on the withinhousehold distributional …

information structure and labor supply decisions follow the Mirrleesian tradition. However, while the household’s total …