Economic analysis of household behaviour, usually, assumes that household size and composition are fixed and exogenous. This study departs from this practice by analysing resource and household compositional variables, using an interdependent framework that treats them as jointly endogenous. The...

The paper uses household level unit record data from South Africa to examine the behavioural and welfare impacts of private and public transfers. The results show that crowding out of private transfers as a result of the introduction of public pensions holds only for poor households and not for...

This paper tests, using data from South Africa and Pakistan, two major implications of the unitary household model, namely, that (a) each individual pools the various components of her/his non-labour earnings, and (b) men and women pool their non-labour earnings between themselves. The study...