This paper addresses the issue of household demand for services in Poland when informal sector is taken into …) to find the determinants of households' tax strategy (choice between acquiring services on regular labour market or not …. Two-step Heckman selection model is used to account for the selection into buying household services. Lee's (1983 …

on Lebanese households drawn from the National Household Budget Survey (2005) conducted by Central Administration of … Statistics (CAS). Controlling for household, household head, dwelling, and regional characteristics, we find that the probability …, and increases with aggregate household consumption. Furthermore, regional differences are found to be highly significant …

Social capital and political connections can play an important role in developing countries where markets fail and … institutions are weak. This paper explores their role in household micro-enterprise operation and success in the rural low …-income setting of Vietnam. We propose that social capital and political connections assist households in accessing resources …

We present the results of an experiment that measures social preferences within couples in a context where intra-household … pay-off inequality can be reduced at the cost of diminishing household income. We measure social norms regarding this …

We present a household consumption model that accounts for caring household members, while allowing for noncooperative … between the household members. By varying the degree of intrahousehold caring, the model encompasses a whole continuum of … household consumption models that are situated between the fully cooperative model and the noncooperative model without caring …

We make the novel argument that time spent on household chores can possibly reflect racial discrimination based on … color. Our model, based on Becker's theory of allocation of time and his theory of marriage, recognizes that both intra-household …

in a household can be supported by self interest. Since the costs of raising children are unequally distributed among …

of the way to identify financial constraints is to look at the importance of household wealth in the decision to become … wealth if talent is unobserved; other unobservable household characteristics create similar problems. This paper makes a … contribution to this literature first by using measures of unobservable household characteristics such as entrepreneurial talent …

the South is that in both rural and urban sites in the former region household efficiency is considerably greater than in …