The work of Pahl [Pahl, J., 1989. Money and Marriage. Macmillan, London; Pahl, J., 1995. His money, her money: recent research on financial organisation in marriage. Journal of Economic Psychology, 16, 361-376] has been highly influential and her typology of money management (in various forms)...

Qualitative research in the UK has revealed a diversity of financial arrangements underlying separate systems of household financial management. One factor, identified in previous work, is perceived ownership of money, with financial practices differing according to whether couples have...

The present paper offers a qualitative analysis of how 22 co-habiting same-sex couples manage and think about their finances. Results show that partial-pooling and independent management are the most popular systems with emphasis placed on egalitarianism and devising a fair money management...

This paper examines the impact of income disparity on social norms regarding intra-household financial organisation. Results are reported from an experiment using hypothetical choice scenarios. Brief vignettes were used depicting hypothetical couples at the transition to marriage and to...