We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We establish that gender identity - in … production. The distribution of the share of household income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp cliff at 0.5, which suggests … their marriage and are more likely to divorce. Finally, based on time use surveys, the gender gap in non-market work is …

supermarket entry on household welfare. The richness of the microdata allows us to estimate a general expression for the gains … large and significant welfare gains for the average household that are mainly driven by a reduction in the cost of living …

dynamic model of consumption and labor supply. We emphasize two key results. First, a psychology-based theory of poverty traps … of financial stress. On the other hand, naifs dis-save, fall into a poverty trap, and incur high welfare losses. Second …

. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in …

married couples over the allocation of rival and non-rival household goods. The experiment measures individual preferences …

data through 2008 to investigate whether bank consolidation and other measures achieved their stated goals and whether they …

This paper explores the relationship between household marginal income tax rates, the set of assets that households own … surveys. The empirical findings suggest that a household's marginal tax rate has an important effect its asset allocation … decisions. The probability that a household owns tax-advantaged assets is strongly related to its tax rate on ordinary income …

total wealth of each household in the Health and Retirement Study by $67,000 in 1992 dollars, raising wealth from employer … provided pension benefits per household by 150 percent in real terms. Changes in retiree health benefits, which have only about …

If household portfolios are constrained by borrowing and short-sales restrictions asset markets, then alternative … retirement savings systems may affect household welfare by relaxing these constraints. This paper uses a calibrated partial …