propose a theoretical model of the household based on the idea that altruism between household members vary with familial ties …In this paper, we investigate the link between intra-household resource allocation and familial ties between household …" familial ties (e.g. a nuclear family household) achieve near Pareto efficient allocation of productive resources and Pareto …

The link between household poverty and child labor is much stronger in Pakistan than in Peru. Providing good schools in … data from Peruvian and Pakistani household surveys, Ray tests the hypotheses of a positive association between child labor … Pakistani data but not using Peruvian data. What explains these divergent results? The link between household poverty and child …

household chores. While the general results are maintained in households with a married couple present, in de jure female … simultaneously increasing boys' labour input in household chores. This puts into question the existence of gender preferences in …

We conducted an experiment on the nature of income sharing within 95 established couples in Germany. In a first step …