To understand the household decision-making process regarding food expenditures for children in poor households in …) allocated money between themselves and nutritious meals for one of their children. First, we find strong empirical support for … children’s meals than men. Third, the spouses’ respective bargaining positions derived from consumption patterns strongly …

Obesity is increasing worldwide for both adults and children. Genetic disposition is responsible for some variation in … obesity in children and adults. This paper analyzes the effect of mother’s labor supply in childhood on young adults … importance of childhood environment on children’s later life outcome and the importance of behavioral changes in explaining the …

We consider the life cycle choices of a household deciding how much to consume and how to allocate spouses time to work … work, and time spent with children to estimate the sensitivity of consumption and time allocation to transitory and …

Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian … market attachment, it has limited effects on children born after the loss. This suggests that investment in the next …

Intra-household inequality explains up to 50 percent of the cross-sectional variation in child human capital in the … parental beliefs about the human capital production function and their preferences for inequality in children’s outcomes, as … well as study the role of household resources. I find that parents are driven by efficiency considerations rather than …

We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each … household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar … to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject …

This paper examines the allocation of resources of poverty rates within households in Suriname. To this end we employ a … bargaining model estimation framework that allows one to identify the allocation of resources across adult and children males and … between men and women, but that there is no gender bias among children. We also find that children are least poor members of …