gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in … female employment. In general, women experience both marriage and child penalties, but their relative importance depends on … economic development. The development process is associated with a substitution from marriage penalties to child penalties …

We study the dynamic relationship between women's intra-household reputation and investment decisions. We consider … household investments delegated to the wife in settings where wives perceived to be savvy investors by their husbands are …---we call this the intra-household sunk cost effect. These dynamics have important implications for women's well-being as well …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … household work. These gender inequalities are accompanied by weaker political participation among women. While the historical …

the household …

Pareto Efficiency is a core assumption of most models of household decision-making. We test this assumption using a new … reject household efficiency in developed countries, we find evidence of widespread inefficiency in our setting: retirement …

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 …

economic rights, as has been posited in the literature. The results underscore the importance of intra-household responses to …

A brief historical overview of the household equipment revolution and the women who transformed the home in Germany and …