This paper studies the link between television and divorce in Brazil by exploiting variation in the timing of …

the assumption that there is no within household inequality. In this paper, we show that ignoring consumption inequality … inequality since the 1970s is overstated by almost two-thirds: within household inequality declined over time as the share of … can simultaneously explain virtually all of the decline in within household inequality and a substantial fraction of the …

abortion. However, it seems relevant to evaluate its indirect effects on female bargaining power within the household, for all … abortion legalization in the United States on women's position in the household. My findings suggest that the legalization …

The current literature on consumption inequality treats all adults within the household equally, making the implicit … the subsequent rise in the share of women's income in the household may have important implications for consumption … assigning resources to individual household members. We then construct a measure of individual level inequality by looking at …

poverty experience on future poverty status, future employment status and household composition. The empirical results suggest … behaviour and on household cohesion. Apart from its economic significance, the existence of such feedback effects is interesting …

human capital investment. This paper measures the impact of child fostering on school enrollment and uses household and … interviewing the sending and receiving household participating in each fostering exchange, allowing a comparison of foster children …

to get access to resources without support from unemployment compensation. Analysing a household survey from 1995, we … find that the household formation response of the unemployed is the critical way in which they assure access to resources …. In particular, unemployment delays the setting up of an individual household of young people, in some cases by decades …