Standard household economics assumes that couples pool their incomes and share the sum equally, which is a necessary … advancement of this paper is the use of panel data, which enables me to account for unobserved heterogeneity at the household …

We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel …

We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel …

households. Using data from the Bank of Italy's Survey on Household Income and Wealth covering the financial crisis, we are able … separately. We find that Italian households were able to smooth on average about 85% of shocks to household head's earnings in …/dissavings (40% and 47% in 2008-2010 and 2010-2012, respectively), and within‐household risk‐sharing (16% and 14%). Interestingly …

Are two parents and single parents allocating household resources to children in the same way? Which factors affect … intra-household inequality? Do mothers re-distribute more income to children as they are more empowered? We focus on child …) we analyze intra-household behavior over three different socio-economic contexts. We estimate a collective quadratic …