This paper presents a model of consumption and household production that takes into account substitution between health …

human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the gene pool. A key consequence of the trade-off faced by women is that … relative to remaining single, the greater the man's human capital, and the lower the woman's human capital. As a consequence … themselves. There is a mass of unmarried men at the bottom of the distribution of human capital, and a mass of single women at …

Most empirical studies of the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a … the collective approach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costs of work. We … estimates are used to evaluate various model outcomes, like the wage elasticities of labour supply and the impacts of wage …

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 …

This paper examines how women's fertility responds to increases in their earnings and household wealth using six … the value of household assets induced by land formalization programs in Benin and Ghana. These results are driven by women …

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 …

individuals within the household. The main message is that distortionary indirect taxation can circumvent the agency problem of … the household. Essentially, taxation should discourage less the consumption of a certain group of goods: those for which …

the point that a flexible specification of spousal preferences and the household production technology precludes the …There is some controversy in the field of household economics regarding the efficiency of household decisions. We make … possibility of using revealed preference data on household time allocations to determine the manner in which spouses interact …

on Lebanese households drawn from the National Household Budget Survey (2005) conducted by Central Administration of … Statistics (CAS). Controlling for household, household head, dwelling, and regional characteristics, we find that the probability …, and increases with aggregate household consumption. Furthermore, regional differences are found to be highly significant …