this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases parents' time spent looking after children and working. Using … the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, we estimate a model of intra-household allocation of time for mono …-nuclear families with children under fifteen years of age. We find that fathers' alcohol consumption has a negative impact on their …

We consider the life cycle choices of a household that in each period decides how much to consume and how to allocate …, spouses' wages, hours of work, and time spent with children to estimate the sensitivity of consumption and time allocation to … transitory and permanent wage shocks. These structural parameters describe the ability of household to self-insure in response to …

Household expenditures for children-related goods may change when one of the parent migrates and do so differently … migration is accounted for using a set of instrumental variables derived from the model. Results show that when children are … left with fathers, the household budget is significantly diverted toward the purchase of adult private goods, but the share …

the effects of migration on children depend on which of their parents migrates. I describe the migration of one of the … mechanism generates no difference in the share of total household income devoted to investment on children no matter which of …This paper analyzes the effects of parental migration on children left behind in order to understand whether and how …

We consider the life cycle choices of a household that in each period decides how much to consume and how to allocate …, spouses' wages, hours of work, and time spent with children to estimate the sensitivity of consumption and time allocation to … transitory and permanent wage shocks. These structural parameters describe the ability of household to self-insure in response to …

relationship between parents planning to send their children to study abroad and household savings, household financial assets … statistic significance of parents planning to send children to study abroad differs across household savings distribution …This paper examines the relationship between planning for overseas education and household saving behaviour in China …

leave benefits affect intra-household decision making, family structure, intergenerational mobility, and the distribution of …

household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the … of adults in a household between 1850 and 2000, and for 16 percent of the decline in the number of children … number of adults in a household have fallen dramatically. We develop a simple theory of household size where living with …