This study investigates the impact of the gender of household's head on the determinants of monetary poverty in Benin … female household's heads was lower than that of their male counterpart, but in some cities the poverty depth is higher. Based …

This study investigates the impact of the gender of the household head on the determinants of monetary poverty in the … among female household heads was lower than that of their male-headed counterparts, but in some cities the poverty gap was …

result is interesting for the theoretical literature on the economics of the household, which has so far neglected the …

allocations, namely the household information set. Based on unusually rich data, I find that split migrant couples in the Nairobi …

We devise and execute three experiments to test key features of models of household decision-making. Using established …

Using a sample of established couples, we conduct an experiment on household decision-making. Individual partners first … make a series of dichotomous choices between household goods and vouchers for experiences and then the couple jointly face … decision-theoretic models of household behaviour are inadequate and that instead, much behaviour might be concerned with …

families while other findings point towards the use of household food production as an income smoothing strategy as opposed to …. We select and analyze a broad set of indicators from household survey data to study what actions Russian households take … formulate hypotheses on household smoothing behaviour and to delineate the features of a more rigorous analysis. The picture …

Using a panel of household travel diary data collected in Germany between 1997 and 2005, this study assesses the …