In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in …

This paper develops a model that combines intra-household bargaining with competition on the marriage market to analyse … marriage market into a significantly larger share of household income. Hence, men's incentive to invest in education decreases … women's and men's incentives to invest in education. Once married, spouses bargain over their share of total household …

male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage … one, they have the most to gain from divorcing and going back to the marriage market. This incentive becomes stronger if …

We present a methodology for the structural empirical analysis of household consumption and time use behaviour under … that allow us to rationalise both the observed matches and the within-household allocations of time and money. …

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 …

Intra-household inequality explains up to 50 percent of the cross-sectional variation in child human capital in the … India. I develop new theory-driven survey measures based on hypothetical scenarios that allow me to separately identify … well as study the role of household resources. I find that parents are driven by efficiency considerations rather than …