We formulate a model of household behavior in which cooperation is costly and in which these costs vary across … decisions are not. Small changes in state variables may result in large changes in labor supplies when the household switches … large gains in aggregate labor supply by adopting policies which promote cooperative household behavior. -- household time …

between socio-economic variables. Especially concerning health, meaningful interconnections between household styles and …

Financial literacy is essential for making key financial decisions related to saving, borrowing and investment …

small, about -0:04. While the wives' earnings gains recover only a tiny fraction of the household income loss, public …. The presence and ages of children in the household are crucial determinants of the wife's labor supply response. The most … explanation for the limited scope of intra-household insurance. …

We study the effectiveness of intra-household insurance among married couples when the husband loses his job due to a … gains recover only a tiny fraction of the household income loss and, in the short-term, public transfers and taxes are a … more important form of insurance. We show that the presence of children in the household is a crucial determinant of the …

household's likelihood of receiving remittances. We also compute average treatment effects as well as the marginal impact of … receiving remittances on household welfare, across welfare quantiles. The novelty of our approach is to control for omitted …. The fact that an individual or household is above or below the average propensity score can thus be considered as a proxy …

of household education budgets incur more equal expenditures on education of boys and girls. Moreover, we test if women …'s awareness of gender equality can reduce inequality between boys and girls at the household level. We estimate these effects … using three rounds of longitudinal data of rural households in Pakistan. We use both household and year fixed effects to …