This paper is intended to bridge the theoretical literature describing efficient intra-household behaviour and the … spouses. It examines the key elements of the collective model and discusses its relevance to analysing intra-household …

An experimental design using treatments of a voluntary contribution mechanism is used to test household efficiency …. Efficiency is decisively rejected in all treatments contrary to the assumption of most household models. Information on initial …. -- household efficiency ; intra-household models ; experimental games ; Ethiopia …

household chores. While the general results are maintained in households with a married couple present, in de jure female … simultaneously increasing boys' labour input in household chores. This puts into question the existence of gender preferences in …

This paper applies recent developments in collective model estimation to elicit the household resource sharing rule, i ….e. the amount of household resources accruing to fathers, mothers, and their children among African families in South Africa … specific household members, to be used for identification. We rely on a collective model of household consumption that accounts …

household. In line with previous evidence on gender discrimination in Albania, the results show that the female shares of …

the complexities of household arrangements and migration processes for families. In this mixed methods study, we use …

We assess the effect of female bargaining power on the share of educational expenditures in the household budget in … India. We augment the collective household model by endogenizing female bargaining power and use a three-stage least squares … approach to simultaneously estimate female bargaining power, per capita household expenditure and budget share of education …

This study considers how household composition influences the leisure time of men and women in South Africa, using the … provides insights into market behaviour and physical and mental health. Household composition and leisure consumption are … shows that leisure time allocations are highly dependent on who lives in the household and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition …

Using household data from the latest wave of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, this paper utilizes machine learning … structural parameters of the post-double selection LASSO estimations show that a reduction in household gender wage gap … significantly enhances women's empowerment. Also, a decline in household gender wage gap results meaningfully in improving household …