pattern by the presence of two household goods and socially learned gender-specific comparative advantage in their home … production. We label this gender specialisation as separate housework spheres. Empirical evidence strongly confirms separate …

pension contributions and expected standard of living in retirement, using microdata from the German Panel on Household … sharing. The empirical results suggest that household bargaining is significantly correlated with individual retirement …-related behaviour and expectations, with gender differences. Cooperative partners expect higher standards of living in retirement …

relates it to consumption at both the aggregate and cohort levels. The Household External Finance (HEF) index is based on the … finance ; terms of access ; household consumption ; birth cohorts ; pseudo panels …

social programs, savings and the labor supplies of all adult household members. The optimal policy mix focuses mainly on … Social Assistance, which provides a permanent universal household income oor, with a minor role for temporary earnings …-related Unemployment Insurance. Reecting that married couples obtain intra-household insurance by making labor supply choices for both …

are significant differences regarding the marital status, the presence of at least one child in the household and whether … the household is located in a former West or East German federal state. Married couples and couples with children are …

Research has consistently shown that women's involvement in household decision making positively affects household … outcomes such as nutrition and education of children. Is financial literacy a determinant for women to participate in intra-household … this reason, we perform a decomposition analysis breaking down the gender gap in financial literacy into differences based …

, savings, and the labor supplies of all adult household members. We show that the optimal policy mix is dominated by moderately … generous social assistance, which guarantees a permanent universal minimum household income, with only a minor role for …