We develop a model of the household in which spousal incomes are determined by pre-marital investments, the marriage market is characterized by assortative matching, and endogenously-determined sharing rules form the basis of intra-household allocations. By incorporating pre-marital investments...

We develop a model of the household in which spousal incomes are determined by pre-marital investments, the marriage market is characterized by assortative spousal matching, and endogenously-determined sharing rules form the basis of intra-household allocations. By incorporating pre-marital...

We develop a model of the household in which spousal incomes are determined by pre-marital investments, the marriage market is characterized by assortative matching, and endogenously-determined sharing rules form the basis of intra-household allocations. By incorporating pre-marital investments...

We develop a "collective" model of the household in which spousal incomes are determined by pre-marital investments, the marriage market is characterized by assortative matching, and a sharing rule forms the basis of intra-household allocations. We identify the properties of the sharing rules...