We conducted an experiment on the nature of income sharing within 95 established couples in Germany. In a first step …

children, education, occupation, income, and tradition - on their dominance in family purchase decision of household products … decision stages of family purchase decision-making process but no significant effect in need identification stage; occupation … and final decision stages. The study therefore concludes that spouses‟ dominance in household purchase decision-making in …

's economic autonomy with treated women being 30 percent more likely to report sole decision-making power in their business …

We develop a novel framework to analyze the structural implications of the marriage market for household consumption …. We define a revealed preference characterization of efficient household consumption when the marriage is stable …. Stability means that the marriage matching is individually rational and has no blocking pairs. We characterize stable marriage …