Gender roles in household consumption patterns have been studied in the literature in relation to two models of … household behavior; household production model and the unitary versus non-unitary models of the family decision making. The … implications of the first model relate to the changes in household expenditure patterns as a result of the withdrawal of the wives …

The leading evidence against the unitary household models is that who gets what is significantly dependent upon who … earns how much. However, it is difficult to pin down the causal effect of relative earnings on intra-household resource …'s individual budgets - pocket money. This unique data set allows for the specification of the simultaneous process of household …

Intermarriage between a native and immigrant can affect the household’s supply of labor hours. Spouse selectivity on … the basis of human capital, distribution of bargaining power, and labor supply coordination within the household can …. Using the 2010 American Community Survey, a household labor market specialization index is created. Raw two-limit Tobit …

Economic theories of the household predict that increases in female relative human capital lead to decreases in female … household division of labor as an alternative explanation. We use the 2002 03 Spanish Time Use Survey (STUS) to explore the … presence of social norms associated to the household division of housework and childcare. First, we observe that wives that …

simple Nash-bargaining model of the household and from the classical single-utility-function model of the household. This law …

simple Nash-bargaining model of the household and from the classical single-utility-function model of the household. This law …

We consider the nexus of intra-household transfers, the sex composition of the sibship, and parental retirement …