Bertrand et al. (2015) show that among married couples in the US, the distribution of the share of the household income …

(MGNREGS), on domestic violence via its role as social insurance and a means for improving women's say in household decisions … by 22 percent. Using household panel data, I explore possible channels of increases in women's mobility and decision … making. However, there is limited evidence to support the workfare scheme's role in increasing women's 'say' in household …

changes in intra household earnings due to parenthood must be based on other factors than the intra household gender … within household differences in earnings trajectories due to parenthood, no matter the mothers' intra household bargaining …

-mother household. Boys experience larger investment reductions following the change in household structure, which may help facilitate …

We investigate the pattern of educational assortative mating, its evolution over time, and its impact on household … analysis, where we quantify the contribution of various factors to the distribution of household income. We find that … educational assortative mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income. However …

This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his … spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that spousal work status may be correlated with … resources yield greater bargaining power, I find that the spouse of the head of household is more likely to be involved in …

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 …

that include more than two decision-makers (e.g., polygamous households, adult children). We investigate household …. We conclude that the household efficiency does yield empirically falsifiable restrictions despite being scarcely rejected …

-inconsistent preferences. In our model, hyperbolic discounting couples engage in household production activities, thereby accumulating family … standard models of household behavior. Examples include: marriage contracts that serve as barriers to hasty divorces (e …