: the link between the household head's risk and time preferences and observed child labor supply. We develop a theoretical … model and empirically test for this causality using data from the seventh round of the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey. We …

distribution of households according to the share of income earned by the wife, which they attribute to the existence of a gender …

, gender and earner role within the household. Our results show an average elasticity of 0.08 for men and of 0.14 for women as … largely depend on household composition and the individual's earner role within the household. We then estimate participation … women stems predominantly from the earner role of the individual within the household and nearly disappears once we control …

We investigate the relationship between social interaction and household finances using data from the British Household … household finances and social interaction, rather than focusing one particular facet of household finances, such as the holding … the household balance sheet, i.e. liabilities and assets. Additionally, we allow the influence of social interaction on …

women have at least 0.43 fewer children than average- or plain-looking women when controlling for other factors. The … negative impact seems to operate by altering bargaining power within the family and the opportunity cost of having children …, but not through the quantity-quality interaction of children. For other outcomes, wives' good looks reduce the probability …

work more in household production, then among specialized couples income pooling will be positively associated with the … price of commercial domestic services, substitutes for household production. In line with our prediction, analyses of data … from a unique Danish household survey show that complete income pooling is more frequent where commercial domestic services …

purposeful gender equity strategy. We again hypothesise and confirm that these household types significantly diverge, finding … both the women and men in the equity type often achieve positive outcomes regarding gender equity and economic and family …

In this paper, we study how classmate gender composition matters for students in Ethiopia. We base our results on a … asymmetry: males do not and females do benefit from exposure to more female classmates with less school absence and improvement … class, and in general, that the effects of classmate gender composition are consistent with social interaction effects …

Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the … children through the "caring preferences" of their parents or has treated them as household public goods [Bourguignon (1999 … capacity nor the power to influence the household decision process. The literature on collective models has so far incorporated …