by age, education, wealth, sex and household composition. In aggregate, social assistance dominates unemployment …We empirically analyze the heterogeneous welfare effects of unemployment insurance and social assistance. We estimate a … unemployment insurance is reduced. A revenue-neutral rebalancing of social support away from unemployment insurance and toward …

Households do not share resources equally between their members, so estimating intra-household inequality is crucial to … household level. A growing literature proposes methods to estimate sharing from individual-level demand data for a single … structural household model and identification results in several directions. Using private leisure as the assignable good, I show …

We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each … household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar …

childcare time were found within the household (fathers or other co-resident adults). … depends on their employment status and household characteristics. Using a simultaneous sequential approach, we consider links … strongly influences the time spent by both spouses with their children in 2002, but not in 1988. Fathers were much more …

childcare time were found within the household (fathers or other co-resident adults). … depends on their employment status and household characteristics. Using a simultaneous sequential approach, we consider links … strongly influences the time spent by both spouses with their children in 2002, but not in 1988. Fathers were much more …

To understand the household decision-making process regarding food expenditures for children in poor households in … correlate with more traditional indicators. Finally, we document significant heterogeneity both between individuals and intra-household …