the point that a flexible specification of spousal preferences and the household production technology precludes the …There is some controversy in the field of household economics regarding the efficiency of household decisions. We make … possibility of using revealed preference data on household time allocations to determine the manner in which spouses interact …

This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his … spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that spousal work status may be correlated with … resources yield greater bargaining power, I find that the spouse of the head of household is more likely to be involved in …

patterns for the division of labour in the household that couples have become accustomed to. The views of case workers in … employment offices and those of benefit recipients themselves about the division of labour in the household may influence the …' prior division of labour in the household. In eastern Germany, by contrast, women in former male breadwinner households are …

individual-specific within-household consumption expenditures and on time used for leisure, market production and home production …In this paper, we analyze the nature of intra-household allocations and commitment using unique panel data on …. Specifically we estimate a dynamic collective model of the household in which husbands and wives care about private consumption …

relationship to gender equality within and outside the household. UK quantitative research on the domestic division of labour …There is an extensive literature on the domestic division of labour within married and cohabiting couples and its … from Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study containing sufficient sample sizes of ethnic minority …

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 … efficient allocation of consumption while households with "weaker" familial ties (e.g. an extended family household) do not. We …

gender analysis, this study examines how husbands and wives within the same household perceive climate risks and group …-based approaches as coping strategies. The data stem from a unique self-collected and intra-household survey involving 156 couples in … accumulating vital types of capital such as livestock, durable assets, human, natural, financial and social capital. The findings …

This paper explores the determinants of female land rights and their impact on household income levels among owner …-operated farms in Brazil, Paraguay and Peru. Previous studies in Latin America suggest that the gender of the household head is not a … significant predictor of household income, not unsurprising given the ambiguities with which self-declared headship is associated …