Household collective models celebrate their thirtieth birthday. The collective approach constitutes, perhaps, the … to some excellent surveys of household collective models (Strauss et al., 2000; Vermeulen, 2002; Donni and Chiappori … papers, the collective framework has been used to provide theoretical results for a number of household issues; for example …

the household is an important factor that should be considered when analyzing household decisions. …

will devote to housework. However, when endogeneity of the uses of time are considered using the British Household Panel …

population in the household then examine the determinants of the decision to supply labour. The fraction of home …-produced childcare to household childcare needs is considered to be a public good within the household, for which preferences are … of the choice of home childcare vs. labour supply. We are able to quantify each household's sensitivity to potential …

The distribution of income within the household is found to matter for the allocation of resources towards nutrition … what is commonly done in the literature, I do not assume that only the head of household and his wife share the decision … household member may participate to the decision-making as long as he or she earns some income. I find that a change in the …

We explore the link between child gender and household financial decisions within a cultural environment that strongly … favours having a son. Using data from the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we find that the presence of a daughter is …

This article considers non-unitary models of household behavior. These models suppose explicitly that households … household behavior in these models are subject to constraints that differ from the traditional Slutsky conditions. In addition …, in a certain number of specific cases, the preferences of the different household members can be identified from …

joint consumption. In this paper, we extend the collective model of household consumption to recover mother's, father's and … household resources, though not enough to avoid a very large extent of child poverty compared to what is found in traditional … have more command over household resources. Baseline results on children's shares are robust to using alternative …

This study investigates how spouses' cultural backgrounds mediate the role of intra-household bargaining in the labor … supply decisions of foreign-born and US-born couples, in a collective-household framework. Using data from the 2000 US Census …

We develop a novel framework to analyze the structural implications of the marriage market for household consumption … patterns. We start by defining a revealed preference characterization of efficient household consumption when the marriage is … observation per household and individual preferences are heterogeneous across households. In addition, the characterization allows …