members pulls many households supporting them into poverty. We also show that the household formation responses draw some … to get access to resources without support from unemployment compensation. Analysing a household survey from 1995, we … find that the household formation response of the unemployed is the critical way in which they assure access to resources …

household resources, though not enough to avoid a very large extent of child poverty compared to what is found in traditional …Poverty measures in developing countries often ignore the distribution of resources within families and the gains from … joint consumption. In this paper, we extend the collective model of household consumption to recover mother's, father's and …

examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …

In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to ?household impoverishment?. Subjective …, estimates based on the Bank of Italy?s Survey of Household Income and Wealth reveal a surprising stability of income …

We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally …

. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household - level surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan …

The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision …

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature … suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while … spouses within each household, allowing for corner solutions and correlations in the unobservables across the system of six …

-earners. About 24% of American women in dual-earner households earned more than their husband in 2004. Using a model of household … may also come into play. Our empirical model specifies spouse labour-market participation equations within each household …

This research evaluates the impact on German household labor supply of various subsidy schemes proposed to foster low …-wage employment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate a discrete choice model of household labor supply. On … different policies raising low labor earnings at the individual and household levels. In all cases, the labor supply effect is …