This paper looks at household welfare distribution among two-income couples from three social strata in Izmir, Turkey. A simple explicit two-stage dynamic game theory model is developed to determine if an egalitarian intra-household distribution under certain circumstances is consistent even...

Women earn less than men in general, and a woman's power within a household is presumably related to her income level. Our empirical results, based on the survey conducted on two income households from Izmir, Turkey, indicate that the division of surplus income is more or less egalitarian in...

Much of economic theory still considers the household as a homogeneous and harmonious unit where the spouses have equal power. A well-known empirical fact is that women, in general, earn less than men. Several studies suggest that a woman's power within household is related to her income....