Research into intrahousehold finances challenges key assumptions about the family as a
unitary whole, investigates the extent of sharing within it, examines mechanisms of control …

Providing an integrated and thorough representation from current research and
contemporary society, Family Ties and Aging shows how pressing issues of our time—an …

Psychologists have been observing and interpreting economic behaviour for at least fifty
years, and the last decade, in particular, has seen an escalated interest in the interface …

This review forms part of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's programme to develop a set of
evidence-based anti-poverty strategies for the UK. The remit was to identify and analyse …

Objective: This study provides the first nationally representative data on US adults'
perceptions of income sharing within families. Background: Modern couples confront …

Conservative welfare state policies as in Germany often presume that money is a common
resource within couples and, therefore, pooled. Research, however, indicates that money is …

The ways in which partners manage their money provide important clues to gender
inequality in and the nature of couple relationships. Analyzing data from nationally …

Objective To explore the conditions under which couples use different money management
systems. Background Both joint and individualized money management systems are …

This paper examines household decisions over long-term care insurance (LTCI) purchases
through a bargaining lens. Long-term care insurance purchase is a discrete decision around …

Long-term poverty, precarious employment, low pay, the increased pension age and real-
term reductions in welfare benefits, including bereavement allowances, have brought into …