Household decisions are profoundly shaped by a complex set of financial options due to Social Security rules … claimed. These rules influence optimal household asset allocation, insurance, and work decisions, given life cycle demographic …

population because it ignores public goods and the allocation of time to market work, leisure and household production. We …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 …

because it ignores public good and the allocation of time to market work, leisure and household production. We develop a money … metric measure of welfare that accounts for public goods (by using personalized prices) household production and for the …

This paper examines whether an intra-household externality prevents adoption of a technology with substantial … implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision … suggest that if women cannot make independent choices about household resource use, public policy may not be able to exploit …

. This paper clarifies the roles that household technology and human capital play in reaching conclusions about … spouses' time inputs are perfect substitutes in household production. With no further assumptions (other than efficiency and … rely on households optimally adjusting spouses' stocks of market and household human capital, the specialization conclusion …

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 …

invest more in children and less in market-specific human capital and thus have lower earnings. We revisit these and other …