Women in the Netherlands face an earnings penalty of 47% after birth their first child, which is line with previous studies. We construct several measures relative within-household potential to assess importance household specialization based on comparative advantage. The offers a particularly interesting setting for studying since employees basically no restrictions if they want reduce working...

This article investigates differences in husbands' and wives' experiences of financial hardships. It develops estimates a structural collective household model expenditures on individual-specific necessities hardship reporting where each partner has distinct preferences the makes Pareto efficient decisions. Using data from Household, Income, Labour Dynamics Australia Survey with unique question...

Taking a holiday trip is common couple-based leisure activity in which both partners tend to be actively involved. This paper studies the intra-household bargaining for choice of vacation destination within couples. We conduct discrete experiment we elicit individual and couple preferences different hypothetical travel portfolios two-stage experimental design. The choices are modelled as functi...

I present a model of intra-household allocation to show that when income is not perfectly observed by both spouses, hiding of income can occur even when revelation increases bargaining power. I draw data from Ghana and exploit the variation in the degree of asymmetric information between spouses, measured as the difference between the husband’s own reporting of farm sales and the wife’s reporti...

This paper examines the role of women’s education on fertility and child health in Uganda. To identify causal effects, I exploit the timing of a national reform that eliminated primary school fees in 1997 to implement a regression discontinuity design. Women with more schooling both delay and reduce overall fertility, increase early child health investments, and have less chronically malnourish...

I present a model of intra-household allocation to show that when income is not perfectly observed by both spouses, hiding of income can occur even when revelation increases bargaining power. I draw data from Ghana and exploit the variation in the degree of asymmetric information between spouses, measured as the difference between the husband’s own reporting of farm sales and the wife’s reporti...

This paper theoretically studies and empirically estimates (1) how spousal labor supply affects bargaining between the husband and wife over their private consumption, and (2) the impact of this intrahousehold bargaining on their reservation wage and unemployment duration. We consider a model of household job search in which the outcomes of bargaining are determined by the sharing rule of Chiap...

We study the optimal subsidy on prevention against premature death in an economy composed of two-person households, where the survival of the spouse matters, either because of self-oriented coexistence concerns or because of altruism. Under a noncooperative household model, the laissezfaire prevention levels are shown to be lower than the first-best levels, to an extent that is increasing in se...

This research aims to provide insights into the determinants of channel profitability and the relative power in the channel by considering consumer demand and the interactions between manufacturers and retailers in an equilibrium model. In a departure from the standard empirical channel literature, which assumes that manufacturers set wholesale prices unilaterally, we explicitly model the negot...

Joint custody reforms increase the bargaining power of men within marriage and alter the allocation of resources within the household. The empirical evidence suggests that these shifts reinforce the traditional division of household labor, with both positive and negative effects. On the positive side, marriage and fertility rates rise, and male suicides and domestic violence decline. On the neg...