with household bargaining explanations. For couples with children, improved women’s household bargaining position is …

against lost household earnings by increasing labour supply. We find that both own and partner responses to the shock vary … significantly by gender. Men in households exposed to import competition respond by increasing labour force participation at older … dissolution also differ according to the gender of those affected: for women below 45, but not men, exposure to the trade shock …

Economists have previously suggested that gains from marriage can be generated by complementarities in production … (gains from specialization and exchange) or by complementarities in consumption (gains from joint consumption of household …

the household …

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975 …-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the pre-marital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main … findings of the paper, it finds that the pre-marital sex (or gender) ratio (the ratio of males to females) has a significant …

for consumption of the individual worker. However, most household panel surveys contain consumption information only at … the household level. We show that proxying individual consumption by household consumption biases estimated Frisch … elasticities downward as limited commitment in the household induces individual consumption to behave differently from household …

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and the Republic of Korea using long-term time series … data for the 1975–2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the premarital sex ratio on the household saving … rate. To summarize the main findings of the paper, it finds that the premarital sex (or gender) ratio (the ratio of males …

We study the dynamic relationship between women's intra-household reputation and investment decisions. We consider … household investments delegated to the wife in settings where wives perceived to be savvy investors by their husbands are …---we call this the intra-household sunk cost effect. These dynamics have important implications for women's well-being as well …

consuming less reveals that gender differences in infection risk aversion and precautionary saving motives are small. I find … considerable gender differences in the reporting of affordability constraints and consumer preference shifts. Women report …

underemployed young people, and in practice worked similarly to an unconditional cash transfer. It kept a gender balance by …