with household bargaining explanations. For couples with children, improved women’s household bargaining position is … children. For singles, we do not find statistically meaningful effects of relative potential wage on any of their consumption …

number of children. -- Household size ; living arrangements ; roommates ; economies of scale ; household public goods …The size of the average American household has fallen dramatically -from six in 1850 to three in 2000. To explain this … decline we model households as collections of roommates who share the costs of household public goods. If private goods are …

household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the … of adults in a household between 1850 and 2000, and for 16 percent of the decline in the number of children … number of adults in a household have fallen dramatically. We develop a simple theory of household size where living with …

household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the … of adults in a household between 1850 and 2000, and for 16 percent of the decline in the number of children … number of adults in a household have fallen dramatically. We develop a simple theory of household size where living with …

household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Furthermore, both the number of children and the … number of adults in a household between 1850 and 2000, and for 16 percent of the decline in the number of children. … number of adults in a household have fallen dramatically. We develop a simple theory of household size where living with …

This paper analyzes the intra-household distribution of wealth and welfare in the United States, within a theoretical … leads to wealth inequalities. However, the intra-household processes appear to be efficient in terms of welfare, as … framework based on a collective model of labor supply, where household decisions are Pareto efficient, and spouses negotiate a …