decision-model with a household public good to show that the secondary earner might veto against tax planning if the … realization of tax savings increases intra-household income inequality. The empirical analysis exploits a specific feature of the …

with household bargaining explanations. For couples with children, improved women’s household bargaining position is …

This paper considers the association between intra-household resource allocation and couple financial hardships in … Australia. It develops and estimates a collective household model of expenditures on individual-specific necessities and … hardship reporting where each partner has a distinct utility function and household decisions are assumed to be Pareto …

This paper considers the association between intra-household resource allocation and couple financial hardships in … Australia. It develops and estimates a collective household model of expenditures on individual-specific necessities and … hardship reporting where each partner has a distinct utility function and household decisions are assumed to be Pareto …

This paper develops a novel model of marital sorting on income potentials: In the marriage market, people are matching … on potential wage growth rates which differ across individuals. Gains from marriage arise from intra-household … find there is strong positive assortative matching on wage growth rates, which helps explain the correlated wage residuals …

Eligibility and benefits for anti-poverty income transfers in the U.S. are based on both the means and the household … arrangement, and marital status. We find that the U.S. anti-poverty policy distorts the cohabitation/marriage decision of single …

We explore the link between child gender and household financial decisions within a cultural environment that strongly … favours having a son. Using data from the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we find that the presence of a daughter is … marriage market thanks to the relative under-supply of unmarried women, have lower incentives to raise their female heirs …

We explore the link between child gender and household financial decisions within a cultural environment that strongly … favours having a son. Using data from the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we find that the presence of a daughter is … less competitive marriage market for families with daughters vs. those with sons. As a result, such families have lower …

justifiably trusting their husbands), higher savings were achieved through wives' increased involvement in household decisions … higher savings. Our findings encourage household-based interventions to consider spouses' (mis)perceptions about intra-household …