IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5687

Reconsidering Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation in India

Laura V Zimmermann

substantially revised version published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2012, 48 (1), 151-163

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5653

Debt Portfolios

Thomas Hintermaier, Winfried Koeniger

revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2016, 8 (4), 103-141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5637

Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?

Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5612

Partner (Dis)agreement on Moving Desires and the Subsequent Moving Behaviour of Couples

Rory Coulter, Maarten van Ham, Peteke Feijten

published as 'Partner (dis)agreement on moving desires and the subsequent moving behaviour of couples' in: Population, Space and Place, 2012, 18 (1), 16-30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5608

Optimal Commodity Taxation and Redistribution within Households

Olivier B. Bargain, Olivier Donni

published in: Economica, 2014, 81 (321), 48-62

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5594

Are Intra-Household Allocations Policy Neutral? Theory and Empirical Evidence

Pierre-André Chiappori, Murat Iyigun, Jeanne Lafortune, Yoram Weiss

published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (604), 1874-1905.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5549

Income Taxation of U.S. Households: Basic Facts

Nezih Guner, Remzi Kaygusuz, Gustavo Ventura

published in Review of Economic Dynamics, 2014, 17(4), 559–581

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5510

Trends in Individual Income Growth: Measurement Methods and British Evidence

Stephen P. Jenkins, Philippe Van Kerm

published in: Economica, 2016, 83 (332), 679 - 703.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5465

Why Are Saving Rates So High in China?

Dennis T. Yang, Junsen Zhang, Shaojie Zhou

published in: Joseph Fan and Randall Morck (eds.), 2012, Capitalizing China. University of Chicago Press, 249-282

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5427

Enrolment in Micro Life and Health Insurance: Evidences from Sri Lanka

Mirko Bendig, Thankom Gopinath Arun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5418

Income Pooling and Household Division of Labor: Evidence from Danish Couples

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Jens Bonke, Shoshana Grossbard

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5406

Consumption and Social Identity: Evidence from India

Melanie Khamis, Nishith Prakash, Zahra Siddique

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 83 (3), 353-371

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5384

Evaluation of the Underground Economy in Quebec: A Microeconomic Approach

Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix, Dominique Pinard

published in: International Economic Journal, 2010, 24 (4), 463-479

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5348

Female Labour Supply and Spousal Education

Kerry L. Papps

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5345

Racial Discrimination and Household Chores

Shoshana Grossbard, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina

published as 'Racial intermarriage and household production' in: Review of Behavioral Economics, 2014, 1 (4), 295-347

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5331

Income Uncertainty and Household Savings in China

Marcos Chamon, Kai Liu, Eswar Prasad

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 105, 164-177

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5326

Child Ability and Household Human Capital Investment Decisions in Burkina Faso

Richard Akresh, Emilie Bagby, Damien de Walque, Harounan Kazianga

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2012, 61 (1), 157-186

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5242

The British Household Panel Survey and its Income Data

Stephen P. Jenkins

published as: Chapter 4 , in: S.P. Jenkins: Changing Fortunes: Income Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Britain, Oxford University Press, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5242

The British Household Panel Survey and its Income Data

Stephen P. Jenkins

published as: Chapter 4 , in: S.P. Jenkins: Changing Fortunes: Income Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Britain, Oxford University Press, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5242

The British Household Panel Survey and its Income Data

Stephen P. Jenkins

published as: Chapter 4 , in: S.P. Jenkins: Changing Fortunes: Income Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Britain, Oxford University Press, 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5223

The Contribution of Social Transfers to the Reduction of Poverty

Nicholas T. Longford, Catia Nicodemo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5190

Married with Children: A Collective Labor Supply Model with Detailed Time Use and Intrahousehold Expenditure Information

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Frederic Vermeulen

published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (17), 3377-3405

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5155

Household Choices and Child Development

Daniela Del Boca, Christopher Flinn, Matthew Wiswall

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2014, 81 (1), 137-185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5138

Independent Individual Decision-Makers in Household Models and the New Home Economics

Shoshana Grossbard

published in: J. Alberto Molina (ed.), Household Economic Behaviors, Springer: 2011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5127

Household Decision Making in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses

Fredrik Carlsson, Haoran He, Peter Martinsson, Ping Qin, Matthias Sutter

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84 (2), 525-536

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5113

Efficient Intra-Household Allocation of Parental Leave

Juliane Parys, Gregor Schwerhoff

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2018, 51 (1), 236 - 27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5072

Cumulation of Cross-Section Surveys: Evaluation of Alternative Concepts for the Cumulated Continuous Household Budget Surveys (LWR) 1999 until 2003 Compared to the Sample Survey of Income and Expenditures (EVS) 2003

Joachim Merz, Henning Stolze

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5067

Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys

Tilman Brück, Patricia Justino, Philip Verwimp, Alexandra Avdeenko

revised version published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2015, 31 (1), 29-58.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5048

Testing the 'Brain Gain' Hypothesis: Micro Evidence from Cape Verde

Catia Batista, Aitor Lacuesta, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 97 (1), 32-45

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4961

Sexual Orientation and Household Savings: Do Homosexual Couples Save More?

Brighita Negrusa, Sonia Oreffice

published as 'Sexual orientation and household financial decisions: evidence from couples in the United States' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (4), 445-463

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4944

On the Importance of Household Production in Collective Models: Evidence from U.S. Data

Olivier Donni, Eleonora Matteazzi

published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 105/106, 99-126

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4903

Intra-Household Labor Supply, Migration, and Subsistence Constraints in a Risky Environment: Evidence from Rural El Salvador

Timothy J. Halliday

published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (6), 1001-1019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4845

The Multitasking of Household Production

Charlene M. Kalenkoski, Gigi Foster

published in: C. Kalenkoski and G. Foster (eds): The Economics of Multitasking, Palgrave MacMillan, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4770

Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany

Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel, Hilmar Schneider

revised version published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2012, 58 (1), 118-141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4759

The Analytical Returns to Measuring a Detailed Household Roster

Richard Akresh, Eric V. Edmonds

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4758

Mortgage Finance in Central and Eastern Europe: Opportunity or Burden?

Thorsten Beck, Katie Kibuuka, Erwin R. Tiongson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4704

Why Do BLS Hours Series Tell Different Stories About Trends in Hours Worked?

Harley Frazis, Jay Stewart

published in: Katharine G. Abraham, Michael J. Harper, and James R. Spletzer (eds.), Labor in the New Economy, NBER Studies in Income and Wealth, University of Chicago Press, 2010, 343-372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4697

Income Taxation in an Empirical Collective Household Labour Supply Model with Discrete Hours

Hans Bloemen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4688

Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment

Catia Batista, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2011, 25 (1), 77-104

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4631

Mortgage Indebtedness and Household Financial Distress

Dimitris Georgarakos, Adriana Lojschova, Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4617

New Evidence on the Role of Remittances on Health Care Expenditures by Mexican Households

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Susan Pozo

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 69-98.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4603

Non-unitary Models of Household Behavior: A Survey of the Literature

Pierre-André Chiappori, Olivier Donni

published in: Alberto Molina (ed.), Household Economic Behaviors, Berlin: Springer, 2011, 1 - 40.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4599

You Can't Be Happier than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce

Cahit Guven, Claudia Senik, Holger Stichnoth

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, 82 (1), 110-130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4550

Dynamic Female Labor Supply

Zvi Eckstein, Osnat Lifshitz

published in: Econometrica, 2011, 79 (6), 1675–1726

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4529

Mother or Child? Intra-Household Redistribution under Gender-Asymmetric Altruism

Indraneel Dasgupta

published in: Journal of Globalization and Development, 2011, 2 (1), Article 2

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4481

Portfolio Allocation in the Face of a Means-Tested Public Pension

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Vincent A. Hildebrand

pubished in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57 (3), 536 - 560

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4431

Substitution Effects in Parental Investments

Loren Brandt, Aloysius Siow, Jackie Wang

Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 28(2), 423-462 [Winner of Kuznet's Price 2015]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4378

Grazing, Goods and Girth: Determinants and Effects

Daniel S. Hamermesh

published as "Incentives, time use and BMI: The roles of eating, grazing and goods" in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 8 (1), 2-15

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4377

Endogeneous Household Interaction

Daniela Del Boca, Christopher Flinn

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 166 (1), 49-65

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4377

Endogeneous Household Interaction

Daniela Del Boca, Christopher Flinn

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 166 (1), 49-65

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4341

Marriage, Cohabitation and Commitment

Murat Iyigun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4327

The Economies of Scale of Living Together and How They Are Shared: Estimates Based on a Collective Household Model

Aline Bütikofer, Michael Gerfin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4272

Kinky Choices, Dictators and Split Might: A Non-Cooperative Model for Household Consumption and Labor Supply

Jan Boone, Karen van der Wiel, Frederic Vermeulen

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 3 (11).

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4265

Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women

Lídia Farré, Libertad González, Francesc Ortega

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions, 2011, 11 (1), Article 34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4197

Demografie und Ungleichheit: Der Einfluss von Veränderungen der Haushaltsstruktur auf die Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland

Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel, Hilmar Schneider

substantially revised version available as IZA Standpunkt No. 18, published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2011, 43(4), 327-338

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4189

Relational Contracts, Taxation and the Household

Patricia Apps, Ray Rees

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (2), 245-258

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4188

Intra-Household Time Allocation: Gender Differences in Caring for Children

Inmaculada García-Mainar, José Alberto Molina, Víctor M. Montuenga

published as 'Gender Differences in Childcare: Time Allocation in Five European Countries' in: Feminist Economics, 2011, 17 (1), 119-150

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4139

Household Decision Making and the Influence of Spouses' Income, Education, and Communist Party Membership: A Field Experiment in Rural China

Fredrik Carlsson, Peter Martinsson, Ping Qin, Matthias Sutter

revised version published as 'The Influence of Spouses on Household Decision Making Under Risk: An Experiment in Rural China' in: Experimental Economics, 2013, 16(3), 383-403

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4119

Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Health Interventions: Evidence from Brazil's Family Health Program

Romero Rocha, Rodrigo R. Soares

published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (S1), 126-158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4078

Is the Quantity-Quality Trade-off a Trade-off for All, None, or Some?

Daniel L. Millimet, Le Wang

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011, 60 (1), 155-195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4048

How Does Household Production Affect Measured Income Inequality?

Harley Frazis, Jay Stewart

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (1), 3-22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4029

Female Labor Supply Differences by Sexual Orientation: A Semi-Parametric Decomposition Approach

Heather Antecol, Michael D. Steinberger

published as 'Labor Supply Differences between Married Heterosexual Women and Partnered Lesbians: A Semi-Parametric Decomposition Approach' in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (1), 783-805

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3955

Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production

Michael C. Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh

published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 107 (2), 131-133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3929

Child Welfare and Old-Age Security in Female Headed Households in Tanzania

Holger Seebens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3892

An Assignment Model with Divorce and Remarriage

Pierre-André Chiappori, Murat Iyigun, Yoram Weiss

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3823

An Empirical Analysis of the Time Allocation of Italian Couples: Are Italian Men Irresponsive?

Hans Bloemen, Silvia Pasqua, Elena G. F. Stancanelli

published as "An empirical analysis of the time allocation of Italian couples: are they responsive?" in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (3), 345-369

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3793

Household Access to Microcredit and Children's Food Security in Rural Malawi: A Gender Perspective

Gautam Hazarika, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3728

Are Children Decision-Makers Within the Household?

Anyck Dauphin, Abdel Rahmen El Lahga, Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix

published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (553), 871–903

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3728

Are Children Decision-Makers Within the Household?

Anyck Dauphin, Abdel Rahmen El Lahga, Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix

published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (553), 871–903

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3689

Using a Census to Assess the Reliability of a National Household Survey for Migration Research: The Case of Ireland

Alan Barrett, Elish Kelly

published as "How Reliable is the Quarterly National Household Survey for Migration Research?" in: Economic and Social Review, 2008, 39 (3), 191-205

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3679

How Do Parents Allocate Time? The Effects of Wages and Income

Hans Bloemen, Elena G. F. Stancanelli

published as 'Market hours, household work, child care, and wage rates of partners: an empirical analysis' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12 (1), 51-81

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3611

Multi-Family Households in a Labour Supply Model: A Calibration Method with Application to Poland

Peter Haan, Michal Myck

published in: Applied Economics, 2012, 22, 2907 - 2919

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3535

Intergenerational Transmission of Healthy Eating Behaviour and the Role of Household Income

Alison Goode, Kostas Mavromaras, Murray Smith

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3531

School Attendance of Children and the Work of Mothers: A Joint Multilevel Model for India

Francesca Francavilla, Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Leonardo Grilli

published in: World Development, 2012, 33, 143 - 172

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3472

Does More Mean Better? Sibling Sex Composition and the Link between Family Size and Children’s Quality

Javier E. Baez

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3464

In Search of Gender Bias in Household Resource Allocation in Rural China

Lina Song

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3455

Modelling the Employment and Wage Outcomes of Spouses: Is She Outearning Him?

Hans Bloemen, Elena G. F. Stancanelli

published as 'Toyboys or supergirls? An analysis of earnings and employment outcomes of spouses' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2015, 13 (3), 501-530

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3431

Understanding Poverty among the Elderly in India: Implications for Social Pension Policy

Sarmistha Pal, Robert Palacios

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2011, 47 (7), 1017 - 1037

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3349

Economic Well-Being and Poverty among the Elderly: An Analysis Based on a Collective Consumption Model

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Frederic Vermeulen

published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (6), 985-1000

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3322

Migration, Risk and the Intra-Household Allocation of Labor in El Salvador

Timothy J. Halliday

substantially revised version published as IZA DP No. 4903, April 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3320

Empowerment Zones, Neighborhood Change and Owner Occupied Housing

Douglas J. Krupka, Douglas S. Noonan

revision published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2009, 39(4), 386-396

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3318

Taxation, Aggregates and the Household

Nezih Guner, Remzi Kaygusuz, Gustavo Ventura

published as 'Taxation and Household Labor Supply' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79 (3), 1113-1149.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3313

Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner

published in: Acemoglu, D. et al. (eds.): NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2008, NBER, Cambridge, MA , 2009, 231-276

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3313

Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner

published in: Acemoglu, D. et al. (eds.): NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2008, NBER, Cambridge, MA , 2009, 231-276

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3309

Leaving Home: What Economics Has to Say about the Living Arrangements of Young Australians

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark

published in: Australian Economic Review, 2008, 41 (2), 160-176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3274

A Public Good Version of the Collective Household Model: An Empirical Approach with an Application to British Household Data

Chris van Klaveren, Bernard M. S. van Praag, Henriette Maassen van den Brink

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2008, 6 (2), 169-191

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3274

A Public Good Version of the Collective Household Model: An Empirical Approach with an Application to British Household Data

Chris van Klaveren, Bernard M. S. van Praag, Henriette Maassen van den Brink

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2008, 6 (2), 169-191

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3245

Fertility Differences between Married and Cohabiting Couples: A Switching Regression Analysis

Junfu Zhang, Xue Song

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3201

Inequalities Within Couples: Market Incomes and the Role of Taxes and Benefits in Europe

Francesco Figari, Herwig Immervoll, Horacio Levy, Holly Sutherland

revised version published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2011, 37, 344-366

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3191

Why Are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?

Marcos Chamon, Eswar Prasad

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (1), 93-130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3157

Safety Net Still in Transition: Labour Market Incentive Effects of Extending Social Support in Poland

Peter Haan, Michal Myck

revised version published as 'Safety net still in transition: labour market incentive effects of social support in Poland and Germany' in: Bank i Kredyt, 2010, 41 (3), 5-34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3127

Cooperative Household Models

Patricia Apps, Ray Rees

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3109

Family Bargaining and Taxes: A Prolegomenon to the Analysis of Joint Taxation

Robert Pollak

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (2), 216-244

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3035

Brain Drain or Brain Gain? Micro Evidence from an African Success Story

Catia Batista, Aitor Lacuesta, Pedro C. Vicente

substantially revised version available as IZA DP No. 5048

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2980