look at five different sets of factors (demographics, income, labor market, inheritances, financial decision-making in the … decision-making, we find the gap to be significantly smaller when the female partner manages the money and larger if the male …

Standard household economics assumes that couples pool their incomes and share the sum equally, which is a necessary … poverty. However, since cohabitation without marriage is on the rise and since income pooling is less frequent among … advancement of this paper is the use of panel data, which enables me to account for unobserved heterogeneity at the household …

Several models of intra-household decision making have been suggested in the literature. We present a framework that … relationship between expenditures on goods and the intra-household distribution of income. We estimate and test between these … relationships using Canadian household expenditure data. We conclude that there is evidence that both husbands and wives care for …

Several models of intra-household decision making have been suggested in the literature. One important dichotomy is … goods and the intra-household distribution of income. We estimate and test between these relationships using Canadian … household expenditure data. We conclude that there is evidence that both husbands and wives care for each other in the sense …