We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel …

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 …

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 …