It is frequently assumed that money in the hands of women leads to better outcomes for their children than money in the … child, but leads to more gender-equal allocations to children. Second, time preferences are important in explaining … household decision-making; it is better for the child that the most patient spouse has more relative bargaining power. Our …

requires, should be easy to empirically disprove: since household-consumption choices differ for households with more members …, aggregation can be rejected if appropriate data violate an affine equation regarding how much individuals benefit from within-household … sharing of goods. We develop a survey method that tests the validity of this equation, without utility-estimation restrictions …

consumption-saving behavior. We construct a novel consumption-saving model where the household must infer the persistent component …

using insights from the way a single representative household would behave. Heterogeneity at the micro level can jeopardize …-level heterogeneity is household size, as individuals living in multi-member households have the potential to share goods within the … household, benefiting from household-size economies. Theoretically, we show that validating the role of a representative …