We set out a general framework for cooperative household models, based on Samuelson's idea of a household welfare function, but extending it to incorporate the key insight from Nash bargaining models - the idea that the household's preference ordering over the utility profiles of its members...

We set out a general framework for cooperative household models, based on Samuelson’s idea of a household welfare function, but extending it to incorporate the key insight from Nash bargaining models - the idea that the household’s preference ordering over the utility profiles of its members...