The distribution of personal income in a society depends strongly on the within-household distribution of income. Nevertheless, little is known about this phenomenon. I analyze the sharing of income among household partners from a welfare economic perspective. Measures of financial satisfaction...

The paper proposes a model of household behavior with both private and public consumption where the spouses independently maximize their utilities, but taking into account, together with their own individual budget constraints, the collective household budget constraint with public goods...

We present a comprehensive model of household economic decision covering both full cooperation and noncooperation as well as semi-cooperative cases, varying with income distribution and a parameter vector <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$\theta $$</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"> <math xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <mrow> <mi mathvariant="italic">θ</mi> </mrow> </math> </EquationSource> </InlineEquation> representing degrees of individual autonomy with respect to the...</equationsource></equationsource></inlineequation>