We use micro data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to document how households' tax liabilities vary with income … children. The data reveals a large dispersion in tax rates and taxes paid. Ranking households according to the average tax … married and 31.8% of unmarried households do not pay any taxes. Given the progressivity in the system, tax liabilities are …

income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into this household-produced commodity. Focusing on these two years …, between which income and earnings inequality increased, allows examining how household production is affected by changing … households for 2003 and 2004. The findings imply that projecting food expenditures alone overestimates the amount spent on food …

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 … two developments. The aim of the paper is to quantify how the trend towards smaller households has influenced the change …

This article considers non-unitary models of household behavior. These models suppose explicitly that households … household behavior in these models are subject to constraints that differ from the traditional Slutsky conditions. In addition …, in a certain number of specific cases, the preferences of the different household members can be identified from …

, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … and household welfare. Special attention is paid to methodological issues on how to design a module and operationalize … and discuss a generic household module that can be easily inserted into future socio-economic surveys implemented in …

Labor markets are increasingly global. Overseas work can enrich households but also split them geographically, with … understood. We study a policy discontinuity in the Philippines that resulted in quasi-random assignment of temporary, partial-household … jobs on migrant households. A purpose-built survey allows nonexperimental tests of different theoretical mechanisms for the …