We exploit time use data from Denmark and the United States to examine the impact institutions and social norms have on individuals‟ bargaining power within a household, hypothesizing that the more generous social welfare system and more egalitarian social norms in Denmark will mitigate the impact standard economic power measures have upon couples‟ time use. Further we posit that leisure time w...

This paper demonstrates that migration lowers welfare gains from new local public goods (like electricity, hospitals or schools) by congesting inelastically supplied local amenities. Our simple model shows that the structure of the market for local amenities matters for welfare: Program-induced migration will be higher and congestion externalities larger when markets for local amenities (like l...

Household relocation modelling is an integral part of the planning process as residential movements influence the demand for community facilities and services. Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) created the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) program to collect reliable longitudinal data on family and household dynamics. S...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association of positive report on a maternal depression screen (PDS) with loss or reduction of welfare support and foods stamps, household food insecurity, and child health measures among children aged < or =36 months at 6 urban hospitals and clinics. METHODS A convenience sample of 5306 mothers, whose children <36 months old were being seen in hospital general clinic...

The “collective approach” to household behaviour relaxes the restrictive features of the unitary model by specifying household welfare to be a weighted combination of the individuals’ utilities. However, the weights are assumed fixed or exogenous to the analysis. This paper extends the collective approach by proposing and estimating a framework where the weights are determined and simultaneousl...

Private car use is one of the major contributors to pollution in industrialised countries. It is therefore important to understand the factors that determine the demand for car use. In explaining the variability in car use, it is important to take into account household demographic characteristics and local and regional differences in infrastructure, in addition to the economic variables common...

This paper presents novel empirical evidence on the welfare impacts of forest protection programs, focusing both income and material at household level. Specifically, we conduct a survey 1271 households in forestry communities that participate Natural Forest Protection Program (NFPP) China. The data are collected from 56 state enterprises (SFEs) across three provinces We employ Alkire–Foster me...

this study examined distrbution of household income in khorasan razavi province and the country for urban and rural areas, seprately. using household income and expenditure statistics compiled by the statistical center of iran during 2007-2012 the gini index, tile index, atkinson index and the tenth docile to the first docile were applied.the study findings indicate that during the studied peri...

In this paper, we present one of the first direct microeconometric studies of the impact of trade protection on household income in Ghana. Tariff measures at the two-digit ISIC level are matched to Ghanaian household survey data for 1991/92 and 1998/99 to represent the tariff for the industry in which the household head is employed. We examine the possibility that the effect of protection on in...