This work augments existing household bargaining literature by focusing on locally varied property rights norms in determining spouses’ relative threat points. While similar studies have used spouses' pre-marriage assets as an indicator of bargaining power, I hypothesize that the division of property in case of divorce might provide a more relevant indicator, given the legal predominance of var...

This paper develops a model of two person family. Each family member attempts to maximize his or her own utility. Yet they are interdependent in two respects. Family members are interdependent, first of all, because they care about each other. Second, there are local public goods or household expenditures within the family, such as housing. The presence of household expenditures means that one ...

In recent years analysts have examined the effects of bargaining power over household economic decisions on individual well-being. Much of this work has focused on the determinants and consequences of women’s bargaining power. We build on this line of research by classifying households into three types of power structure based on whether the mother, the father, or both jointly decide on food pu...

This paper uses a subjective wellbeing approach to study the role of household arrangements on the health satisfaction of an individual. It also studies the impact of household arrangements on health satisfaction across different income groups, by contrasting two main theories of the family: the altruistic/communitarian theory, which emphasizes altruism within the family, implies that the withi...

This paper criticizes the view that discrimination limits the disadvantaged sex to undertaking housework and thus ensures that gains from specialization at the household level are not wasted. Our framework gives attention to causal links between labor market discrimination and the strategic behavior of women and men within families. We consider a repeated family bargaining model that links the ...

This paper sets out a simple non-cooperative model of household bargaining that incorporates domestic violence as an instrument for enhancing bargaining power over household resource allocation. We demonstrate that the extent of domestic violence faced by women is not necessarily declining in their outside options, nor necessarily increasing in their spouses’. Using the National Family Health S...

Background Many of public hospitals in Japan have had a deficit for a long time. Japanese local governments have been encouraging public hospitals to use group purchasing of drugs to benefit from the economies of scale, and increase their bargaining power for obtaining discounts in drug purchasing, thus improving their financial situation. In this study, we empirically investigate whether or no...

Intermarriage between a native and immigrant can affect the household’s supply of labor hours. Spouse selectivity on the basis of human capital, distribution of bargaining power, and labor supply coordination within the household can differ by type of marriage and gender of the immigrant—and, consequently, affect how spouses supply labor to the market. Using the 2010 American Community Survey, ...

This study investigates the effects of gender on aggregate saving. We test the hypothesis that shifts in women’s relative income, which can affect their bargaining power within the household, have a discernible impact on household saving and, by extension, gross domestic saving, due to differing saving propensities by gender. The empirical analysis is based on panel data for a set of semi-indus...