some economic models of household decision-making. Subjects make choices individually and jointly and are asked to make …

The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision …

-earners. About 24% of American women in dual-earner households earned more than their husband in 2004. Using a model of household … may also come into play. Our empirical model specifies spouse labour-market participation equations within each household …

to model household behavior as a Nash-bargaining game. Since then, very few attempts have been made to operationalize … cooperative models of household labor supply for policy analysis. In this paper, we implement a Nash-bargaining model with … the likely role of taxation on intra-household negotiation. …

This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to make precise the idea that because households are engaged in a … specialisation and exchange which exists in the household. The household's choice of a particular solution from the resulting … feasible set is found by the maximisation of a household welfare function, a generalisation of a suggestion originally made by …

model of household decisions which explicitly accounts for the role played by the tax and benefit system. Its main … implications are then tested using panel data from the British Household Panel Survey collected between 1991 and 2002. Overall, the …

We provide a nonparametric 'revealed preference' characterization of rational household behavior in terms of the … nature of consumption externalities (positive or negative) in the intra-household allocation process is non-testable. The …, monotonicity is testable for the model that assumes all household consumption is public. …

This article considers non-unitary models of household behavior. These models suppose explicitly that households … household behavior in these models are subject to constraints that differ from the traditional Slutsky conditions. In addition …, in a certain number of specific cases, the preferences of the different household members can be identified from …

We set out a general framework for cooperative household models, based on Samuelson's idea of a household welfare … function, but extending it to incorporate the key insight from Nash bargaining models - the idea that the household …