This paper is focused on couple households where the wife is the main earner. The economic literature on this subject … is particularly scant. According to our estimates, the wife was the main earner in one of every six couple households in …-earners. About 24% of American women in dual-earner households earned more than their husband in 2004. Using a model of household …

household behavior. Most empirical tests of unitary models rely on endogenous regressors. This paper uses an exogenous change in …

The distribution of personal income in a society depends strongly on the within-household distribution of income …. Nevertheless, little is known about this phenomenon. I analyze the sharing of income among household partners from a welfare … economic perspective. Measures of financial satisfaction for both household partners are used to gain information about the …

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature … suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while … spouses within each household, allowing for corner solutions and correlations in the unobservables across the system of six …

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature … suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while … spouses within each household, allowing for corner solutions and correlations in the unobservables across the system of six …

couple members. Using data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) we examine the ownership of, and amounts held in … savings, investments and debts by couple members, and how these vary by individual and household characteristics. A particular …This paper builds on the existing literature about the distribution of financial resources within the household between …

This paper analyses the association between household characteristics' in particular size and location, and for the … household head age, sector of employment (and the tariff applicable to that sector) and education - and household income using … data from the Tanzania Household Budget Survey for the years 1991/92, 2000/01 and 2007. The static analysis of the …

combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting …

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

CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary Becker's marriage economics helps explain why CLM affects couple …The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US … formation and does so differently depending on education, sex ratios, age, and parent status. CLM reduces in-couple residence …