We examine how men and women in mixed-gender unions change the time they allocate to housework in response to labor … market promotions and terminations. Operating much like raises, such events have the potential to alter intra-household power … strongest association with housework time allocation adjustments. These adjustments are in part attributable to concurrent …

In this paper, we investigate the link between intra-household resource allocation and familial ties between household …" familial ties (e.g. a nuclear family household) achieve near Pareto efficient allocation of productive resources and Pareto … efficient allocation of consumption while households with "weaker" familial ties (e.g. an extended family household) do not. We …