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 matching, and endogenously-determined sharing rules form the basis of intra-household allocations. By incorporating pre-marital investments...

This paper presents a collective household model in which there are marital gains to assortative spousal matching, individuals face a labor-leisure choice and intra-marital allocations are determined by an endogenous sharing rule that is driven by actual wage earnings. The latter two features of...

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...