The current literature on consumption inequality treats all adults within the household equally, making the implicit … the subsequent rise in the share of women's income in the household may have important implications for consumption … assigning resources to individual household members. We then construct a measure of individual level inequality by looking at …

the assumption that there is no within household inequality. In this paper, we show that ignoring consumption inequality … inequality since the 1970s is overstated by almost two-thirds: within household inequality declined over time as the share of … can simultaneously explain virtually all of the decline in within household inequality and a substantial fraction of the …

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 …

primarily changes income and expenditure patterns, widowhood fundamentally changes the structure of the household. Beside high … consumption are lost. This paper applies the Lewbel and Pendakur (2008) collective household model to expenditure data on elderly … households in Switzerland. The findings suggest that between 40 and 50% of household resources are assigned to wives and both …

because it ignores public good and the allocation of time to market work, leisure and household production. We develop a money … metric measure of welfare that accounts for public goods (by using personalized prices) household production and for the … allocation of time …

are significant differences regarding the marital status, the presence of at least one child in the household and whether … the household is located in a former West or East German federal state. Married couples and couples with children are …

are significant differences regarding the marital status, the presence of at least one child in the household and whether … the household is located in a former West or East German federal state. Married couples and couples with children are …