within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing … household level. The results indicate that transferring ownership rights to men increased household consumption of some male …-favored goods and women's time spent on chores. Transferring ownership rights to women decreased household consumption of some male …

work, and correspondingly less to household production and leisure, does not have more bargaining power. But a spouse whose … earnings are high because of a high wage rate does have more bargaining power. Household production has received little … attention in the family bargaining literature. The output of household production is analogous to earnings, and a spouse …

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 household decision making to answer this question. We show that when women have lower wages than men, they …

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 …

We consider the life cycle choices of a household that in each period decides how much to consume and how to allocate … transitory and permanent wage shocks. These structural parameters describe the ability of household to self-insure in response to …

changes. We find that (i) the welfare cost of household-level consumption fluctuations may be overstated by 1.7 percentage …

Household economies of scale arise when households with multiple members share public goods, making larger households … better off at lower per capita expenditures. While estimates of household economies of scale are critical for measuring … income and living standards, we do not know how these scale economies change over time. I use American household expenditure …

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 …

the household …