What do we know about the role of extended families and kinship networks for redistributing
resources? What gaps in our knowledge most need to be filled? How can we best organize …

This chapter considers nonunitary models of household behavior. These models suppose
explicitly that households consist of a number of different members with preferences that are …

Economists have long argued that the sex imbalance in developing countries is caused by
underlying economic conditions. This paper uses exogenous increases in sex-specific …

We study the effects of Secure Communities, an immigration enforcement program that
dramatically increased interior removals of Hispanic noncitizens from the United States, on …

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men
and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of …

The evidence that the same income can lead to different household decisions, depending
on who the earner is, has led to an effort to replace the standard household model with the …

The consumption literature uses adult equivalence scales to measure individual-level
inequality. This practice imposes the assumption that there is no within-household …

We estimate and test the restrictions of a collective model of household consumption, using
z-conditional demands, in the context of a large conditional cash transfer program in rural …

In this article, we analyse the dynamics of intra-household allocations using unique panel
data on individual-specific consumption expenditures and time used for leisure, market …

Consider a group consisting of S members facing a common budget constraint p'ξ= 1: any
demand vector belonging to the budget set can be (privately or publicly) consumed by the …