Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element …, measures of inequality that ignore intra household allocations are both incomplete and misleading. We discuss determinants of … intrahousehold allocation of resources and welfare. We show how the sharing rule, which characterizes the within household …

noncooperative model of the household where a gender wage gap leads to endogenous household specialization. As a result, women indeed …

Our study shows that the household production theory illuminates the behavior of households in the allocation of time … and consumption expenditures. Among the noteworthy findings derived from our data, the various household non-market time … rates for both young and elderly households reduces their time spent on household nonmarket activities, such as child care …

household production. Simulations using GMM estimates of a Stone-Geary utility function defined over time use suggest no effect … on household production in either country. Estimation of a household model shows only slight evidence that spouses shared …

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975 …-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the pre-marital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main … impact on the household saving rate in both India and Korea, even after controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged …

Whereas studies have established the intra-household distribution of resources affects allocation decisions, little is …

assumptions as household production and interdependent preferences, are now widely accepted not only by economists but also by …, first in the context of preferences, then in the context of household production, and finally in the context of family or … household collective choice …