propose a theoretical model of the household based on the idea that altruism between household members vary with familial ties …In this paper, we investigate the link between intra-household resource allocation and familial ties between household …" familial ties (e.g. a nuclear family household) achieve near Pareto efficient allocation of productive resources and Pareto …

altruism may mediate the relationship between household decision-making and individual contributions to private pension plans … pension contributions and expected standard of living in retirement, using microdata from the German Panel on Household … sharing. The empirical results suggest that household bargaining is significantly correlated with individual retirement …

Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they …

hypothesis, which is undoubtedly the most widely used theoretical model of household behavior in economics, and then survey the … literature on household saving behavior in Japan (with emphasis on the author's own past research) to shed light on whether or … prevalence of bequests, bequest motives, tests of altruism, and the importance of borrowing (liquidity) constraints and show that …