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 …

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. …

that the neglect of these data in much of the literature on household behavior in both industrial and developing economies …

Household collective models celebrate their thirtieth birthday. The collective approach constitutes, perhaps, the … to some excellent surveys of household collective models (Strauss et al., 2000; Vermeulen, 2002; Donni and Chiappori … papers, the collective framework has been used to provide theoretical results for a number of household issues; for example …

educational attainments of husbands and wives) and explicitly modeling how household members interact and make labor supply … to study how changes in educational attainments and household structure affect aggregate labor supply elasticities. …

the collective approach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costs of work. We …

the collective approach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costs of work. We …

against lost household earnings by increasing labour supply. We find that both own and partner responses to the shock vary … investigating household responses, and the self-employment margin, to fully understand the effects of trade shocks. …