Much of the recent literature in household economics has been critical of unitary models of household decision … individual models presented in his theory of marriage. Decision-making models assuming independent individual household members … household welfare function …

of monetary and leisure incentives, which reflect the complex welfare system in Ireland. The household extension version … of the model adapts a collective modelling approach, where the intra-household bargaining is considered. We further … reform on household retirement behaviours. The paper, in addition, applies the model to assess individual budgetary …

This paper revisits the issue of the intra-household allocation of education expenditure with the recently available …) and the decision of how much to spend on education, conditional on enrolling. Finally the paper also uses household fixed … effects to examine whether any gender bias is a within-household phenomenon. The paper finds that the traditional Engel method …

are frequently taken at the household level. We fill this gap by developing and estimating an household search model with … ignoring the household as unit of decision-making has relevant empirical consequences. In estimation, the individual search … specification implies gender wage offers differentials 200% larger than the household search specification. In the application, the …

wage differences, variation in prices of bought-in inputs into household production in the form of child care, and domestic … productivity differences as determinants of across-household heterogeneity in second earner labour supply. The analysis highlights … specification of household time use widens the set of cases in which individual taxation is welfare-superior to joint taxation …

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 …

This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the …

reference level of marriage expenditure for such families. Using the 2013 China Household Finance Survey data, we find that a 0 …

This paper analyses the role of remittances and migration on the occupational outcomes of the household members left …