Household decisions are profoundly shaped by a complex set of financial options due to Social Security rules … claimed. These rules influence optimal household asset allocation, insurance, and work decisions, given life cycle demographic …

because it ignores public good and the allocation of time to market work, leisure and household production. We develop a money … metric measure of welfare that accounts for public goods (by using personalized prices) household production and for the …

population because it ignores public goods and the allocation of time to market work, leisure and household production. We …Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element …, measures of inequality that ignore intra household allocations are both incomplete and misleading. We discuss determinants of …

The transferable utility hypothesis underlies important theoretical results in household economics. We provide a … revealed preference conditions that must be satisfied for observed household consumption behavior to be consistent with …

human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the gene pool. A key consequence of the trade-off faced by women is that … relative to remaining single, the greater the man's human capital, and the lower the woman's human capital. As a consequence … themselves. There is a mass of unmarried men at the bottom of the distribution of human capital, and a mass of single women at …

Most empirical studies of the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a … the collective approach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costs of work. We … estimates are used to evaluate various model outcomes, like the wage elasticities of labour supply and the impacts of wage …

Most empirical studies of the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a … the collective approach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costs of work. We … estimates are used to evaluate various model outcomes, like the wage elasticities of labour supply and the impacts of wage …

household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this … priori. We then use data from the 2012 Indian Human Development Survey to create a standard household-based MPIs closely … higher when using the household-based measure. Similarly, the age differentials in poverty are much larger using the …

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature … suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while … spouses within each household, allowing for corner solutions and correlations in the unobservables across the system of six …

identify vulnerable households and document changes in resource availability, household labour force, livelihood strategies …