asymmetric equilibrium featuring household specialization can arise. Examples where the asymmetric equilibrium is welfare …

in the spouse's potential marriage market increases wives' bargaining power in the household while it lowers their ….S. metropolitan areas in year 2000, a quality sex ratio is constructed by education brackets to test the effect on the intra-household … education increases. We consider a collective labor supply household model, in which each spouse's labor supply is negatively …

We propose a novel structural method to empirically identify economies of scale in household consumption. We assume … behavior. The method imposes no parametric structure on household decision processes, accounts for unobserved preference … heterogeneity across individuals in different households, and requires only a single consumption observation per household. Our main …

There is some controversy in the field of household economics regarding the efficiency of household decisions. We make … the point that a flexible specification of spousal preferences and the household production technology precludes the … possibility of using revealed preference data on household time allocations to determine the manner in which spouses interact …

This chapter surveys the voluminous literature on household formation and marriage markets in developing countries. We … market. We end the chapter with a discussion of marriage dissolution and other changes in household structure. Fertility … these factors are particularly important in poor countries, especially in a rural setting. We then focus on marriage, which …

There is some controversy in the field of household economics regarding the efficiency of household decisions. We make … the point that a flexible specification of spousal preferences and the household production technology precludes the … possibility of using revealed preference data on household time allocations to determine the manner in which spouses interact …

, and household decision-making may not be fully cooperative. Because this information problem is particularly acute when … the China Health and Nutrition Survey indicate that, when the father is away, girls' household labor increases while … and household members simply reallocate time to compensate for the father's absence. Furthermore, outcomes that are easily …

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 …