This paper analyzes the intra-household distribution of wealth and welfare in the United States, within a theoretical … framework based on a collective model of labor supply, where household decisions are Pareto efficient, and spouses negotiate a … wives tend to be more altruistic in comparison to their husbands regarding the intra-household allocation of income, which …

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

.e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is …

This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his … spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that spousal work status may be correlated with … resources yield greater bargaining power, I find that the spouse of the head of household is more likely to be involved in …

-in-differences style identification strategy and a model with household fixed effects. The results suggest that while a migrant household … greater authority for the head of household. …

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

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 …

market promotions and terminations. Operating much like raises, such events have the potential to alter intra-household power …

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

-employment. We also find significant changes for female partners as well as in the cumulative household time investments and the …