position of the household in the income distribution and that behavioural response can potentially improve the welfare position …

particular. Arguably, it is within the household that a gendered division of labour is most relevant. It is difficult to observe … household and to what extent taxes and benefits mitigate (or indeed exacerbate) any inequality of income between men and women …

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 assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living … earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model of the household with young children present, that this assumption is not … modelling and numerical simulations based on survey data, that household income is a poor indicator of household well-being …

largely depend on household composition and the individual's earner role within the household. We then estimate participation …, 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 … women stems predominantly from the earner role of the individual within the household and nearly disappears once we control …

combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting …

compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular …

increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account household size. Therefore, there is an obvious link between these …