The literature suggests that the household invests in the human capital of a child member not only for altruistic … is a function of the risk preference of the household head. This paper estimates the effect of parental risk preference … on child labour decisions in the household using recall information on child labour and a risk elicitation question. We …

idiosyncratic shocks are experienced at the individual level, but responses to shocks can encompass the whole household …. Understanding and accurately modeling these responses is essential to the analysis of intra-household allocations, especially labor … disability and health status to develop a life-cycle framework which rationalizes observed responses of household members to …

how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We … show that – as long as the wife is involved in household decision-making – the intra-household differences in perceptions …. The estimated effects are consistent with the predictions of a model of intra-household decision-making. …

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 …

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. …

To understand the household decision-making process regarding food expenditures for children in poor households in … correlate with more traditional indicators. Finally, we document significant heterogeneity both between individuals and intra-household …