Download or read book Allocation of Income Within the Household written by Edward P. Lazear and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988-07-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To everyone who knows her, Annalise Decker is a model wife and mother. No one knows that she was once Deidre O'Reilly, a troubled young woman whose testimony put a dangerous criminal behind bars. Relocated through the Witness Security Program to the sleepy town of Deep Haven, Deidre got a new identity and a fresh start. When Agent Frank Harrison arrives with news that the man she testified against is out on bail and out for revenge, Annalise is forced to face the consequences of her secrets.
Download or read book At Home and at Work written by Michael Geerken and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1983-03-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on economic theory, the authors postulate that a family allocates work -- any work, be it housework, doing the shopping, or earning money outside the home -- on the basis of maximum utility to the family unit. Its ideas on utility are derived from such factors as its income, education, ideology. A carefully crafted research study confirms these ideas on the allocation of work and housework. The impact on the quality of family relationships of such allocations is also considered. 'This book is well written and clearly organized...It is sensitive to the limitations of its methodology and full of suggestive theoretical insights.' -- Choice, October 1983 @3`...an exemplary little volume which should be
Download or read book The intra household allocation of time written by and published by Rozenberg Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Income Distribution Within Irish Households written by David B. Rottman and published by Combat Poverty Agency. This book was released on 1994 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Income Shares and Shares of Income written by Duncan Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast majority of the literature in economics on household decisions assumes that the household maximizes a unique utility function given a set of constraints dictated by the household budget and available technology. An implication of this model is that it should matter not a whit whether income is under the control of men or women within the household. This paper tests that implication. Using household budget data from the 1980 Taiwanese Survey of the Distribution of Personal Income, we find that household expenditure choices are sensitive to the share of income attributed to women. As her share rises, so the share spent on education rises and the share allocated to staples, alcohol and tobacco falls. Apparently household members do not speak with one voice when making resource allocation decisions. Rejection of this "unitary" model of the household tells us precious little about mechanisms that underlie resource allocations. The authors turn, therefore, to a more general "individualistic" model of the household in which members allocate resources in such a way that no allocation could result in one member being better off without some other member being worse off: that is, resource allocations are Parento efficient. It is shown that under very general conditions, this assumption imposes testable restrictions on data and that the ratio of male to female income effects are equal across all commodities. This is a powerful result as it is not, at first blush, intuitively obvious that it should be true. The implication of Parento efficiency is not rejected by these data and there is not a single case in which the ratio of income effects differ significantly across any pairs. There is some suggestion that the "unitary" model may not be rejected for all sub-groups in the data and so the final section of the paper attempts to identify some of the characteristics of these households. The "unitary" model performs quite well among urban, young and better educated households indicating, perhaps, that there tends to be greater heterogeneity in preferences among more traditional families in Taiwan.
Download or read book Economic Behaviour of Family Households in an International Context written by James Cécora and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Intra household Allocation Under Incomplete Information written by Carolina Castilla and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This dissertation examines the interaction between the intra-household resource management structure and asymmetric information over the quantity of resources available to the household as causes of income-hiding between spouses. I illustrate the incentives to hide income through a set of theoretical models, and I identify income-hiding empirically drawing survey data from Ghana. Income-hiding can have negative implications in the effectiveness of poverty alleviation policies, as spouses wishing to successfully hide income must allocate resources away from household public goods, such as child education and health, which are easily monitored. To illustrate the incentives to hide income, I developed a set of related, but distinct, theoretical models that differ in the contract over the allocation of resources between spouses. In Chapter 2, I show that the incentives to hide when income is unobserved by one spouse differ for three different household resource management structures. I illustrate this with a simple two-stage game. In the first stage, one spouse receives a monetary transfer that is unobserved by her spouse, and she must decide whether to reveal or to hide it. In the second stage, spouses bargain over the allocation of resources between a household good and private expenditure. The three models differ in the resource allocation mechanism that takes place in second stage of the game: housekeeping allowance, independent management, and joint management. Results indicate that hiding is more likely to occur in households with a housekeeping allowance contract, compared to independent or joint management. In joint management households, however, a spouse may hide in equilibrium if the change in bargaining power associated with revealing the transfer is not significant enough to compensate for the loss in discretionary expenditure. To identify income-hiding empirically, it is necessary to test whether unobservable resources attributable to one spouse are more likely to be allocated towards goods that are not easily monitored, relative to observable resources. In Chapter 3 I draw data from Southern Ghana. The data contains information on cross-reporting of each spouse's farm income. I 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 reporting of his farm sales to test whether the allocation of resources in Ghanaian households is consistent with hiding. For identification, the wife's clan and the husband's bride-wealth payments upon marriage are used as instruments for asymmetric information. My findings indicate that men hide farm sales income in the form of gifts to family members other than children and their spouse, which are not closely monitored. In doing so, men give up bargaining power as there is a reduction in observable expenditures such as public transportation. The wife's response is also consistent with hiding. As information asymmetries increase, she reduces her expenditure in non-essential items, such as prepared foods and oil, but increases personal spending as a result of the gain in bargaining power.
Download or read book Lifetime Allocation of Work and Income written by Juanita Morris Kreps and published by Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic analysis of patterns of employment, leisure and income, and their allocation through the lifespan according to age, with emphasis on retirement - includes a comparison of labour force activity, work life, hours of work and wages by age group in developed countries, and examines consumer expenditure and savings needs for retirement by occupational structure, and the incomes policy implications of financing old age benefits in the USA. References and statistical tables.
Download or read book Cross class Families written by Susan McRae and published by Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to a marriage when the wife is a professional and the husband is a manual worker? Cross-Class Families takes a keen look at families that break with the convention of male occupational superiority. Key issues addressed by the families studied include paid work and its relation to family life; the division of household labor, including childcare; responsibility for long-term financial security; and the impact of differences in status, class position, political preference, choice of friends, and attitudes toward trade unions.
Download or read book Empowerment Within the Household written by Kimberly Fender Kurtz and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economics of the Family written by Martin Browning and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The family is a complex decision unit in which partners with potentially different objectives make consumption, work and fertility decisions. Couples marry and divorce partly based on their ability to coordinate these activities, which in turn depends on how well they are matched. This book provides a comprehensive, modern and self-contained account of the research in the growing area of family economics. The first half of the book develops several alternative models of family decision making. Particular attention is paid to the collective model and its testable implications. The second half discusses household formation and dissolution and who marries whom. Matching models with and without frictions are analyzed and the important role of within-family transfers is explained. The implications for marriage, divorce and fertility are discussed. The book is intended for graduate students in economics and for researchers in other fields interested in the economic approach to the family.
Download or read book Purse Or Wallet written by Jackie Goode and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on interviews, carried out in 1997, with 31 couples (with at least one young child) receiving social security benefits: Family Credit for the woman, Income Support for the man. Examines attitudes to money management, control and allocation within these families.
Download or read book The Allocation of Goods Within the Household written by Angus Deaton and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1988 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND TIME ALLOCATION IMPLICATIONS OF A MODEL OF HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTION APPLIED TO PENINSULAR MALAYSIA written by Michael William Kusnic and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Measurement of Household Welfare written by R. W. Blundell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-09-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The measurement of household welfare is one of the most compelling yet demanding areas in economics. To place the analysis of inequality and poverty within an economic framework where individuals are making decisions about current and lifetime incomes and expenditures is a difficult task, made all the more challenging by the complexity of the decision-making process in which households are involved and the variety of constraints they face. This 1994 book examines the conceptual and practical difficulties of making inferences from observed behaviour. It addresses the problems of making comparisons across a range of very different households and discusses how data for such comparisons should be collected. The contributions, from experts from Europe, North America and Australia, have the unifying theme that there is a strong relationship between theoretical concepts from microeconomics and the appropriate use of micro data in evaluating household welfare.
Download or read book Efficient Allocation of Transfers to the Poor written by Paul Glewwe and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the problem of how to transfer money or other forms of assistance to poor households when one observes some characteristics of households, but not their incomes. This and related issues are often referred to as the targeting problem. The paper first sets out the problem formally as one of minimizing a poverty index given a fixed amount of money available for transfers. Assuming that household survey data are available which include accurate income and/or expenditure information, the solution for the problem is formulated as a non-linear mathematical programming exercise. Using household survey data from Cote d'Ivoire, the technique is applied to both urban and rural areas separately. The paper concludes with a general discussion and suggestions for future research.
Download or read book For the Family First written by Anna Pasikale and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
