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 …

contributions, a lump-sum redistribution from fathers to mothers may make children better off, but both parents worse off, or vice … voluntary contribution to children's goods in a two-adult household, where both spouses may have marginal rates of substitution … interests of parents and those of children. Depending on the marginal rate of substitution between paternal and maternal …

In this article we analyse the impact of spousal preference expectations on mothers' willingness to invest in children … sharing, uncertainty is created which decreases cooperation by mothers by reducing their willingness to invest in children … financial information, resources tend to be under-allocated in household public goods such as children. …

allocation of resources within household tend to move to the disadvantage of women after a childbirth. One additional child is …