Bargaining over Time Allocation
Bargaining over Time Allocation

Author: Miriam Beblo

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 364257579X

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In this book, time use behavior within households is modeled as the outcome of a bargaining process between family members who bargain over household resource allocation and the intrafamily distribution of welfare. In view of trends such as rising female employment along with falling fertility rates and increasing divorce rates, a strategic aspect of female employment is analyzed in a dynamic family bargaining framework. The division of housework between spouses and the observed leisure differential between women and men are investigated within non-cooperative bargaining settings. The models developed are tested empirically using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the German Time Budget Survey.

Collective Household Consumption Behavior
Collective Household Consumption Behavior

Author: Laurens Cherchye

Publisher: Foundations & Trends

Published: 2012-03

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 9781601985361

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Collective Household Consumption Behavior: Revealed Preference Analysis presents a nonparametric `revealed preference' methodology for analyzing collective consumption behavior in practical applications, while possibly accounting for externalities, public consumption and the use of assignable quantity information. Collective Household Consumption Behavior: Revealed Preference Analysis considers two types of collective models: The general collective model considers general preferences of the individual household members, which allow for externalities and public consumption within the household. The special collective models that do not allow for consumption externalities. After the introduction, section 2 sets the stage by introducing the revealed preference characterizations of the unitary model. Section 3 presents a collective model that allows for general individual preferences and discusses its revealed preference characterization. Sections 4 and 5 show how to bring this theoretical characterization to observational data. More specifically, Section 4 introduces the mixed integer programming characterizations for special collective models that impose restrictions on the household members' preferences. Section 5 does the same for the general collective model. Throughout Section 2 to Section 5, the authors illustrate the most relevant concepts by means of numerical examples. In Section 6 we subsequently illustrate our main results for data drawn from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey.

The Measurement of Household Welfare
The Measurement of Household Welfare

Author: R. W. Blundell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994-09-15

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0521451957

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The measurement of household welfare is one of the most compelling yet demanding areas in economics. To place the analysis of inequality and poverty within an economic framework where individuals are making decisions about current and lifetime incomes and expenditures is a difficult task, made all the more challenging by the complexity of the decision-making process in which households are involved and the variety of constraints they face. This 1994 book examines the conceptual and practical difficulties of making inferences from observed behaviour. It addresses the problems of making comparisons across a range of very different households and discusses how data for such comparisons should be collected. The contributions, from experts from Europe, North America and Australia, have the unifying theme that there is a strong relationship between theoretical concepts from microeconomics and the appropriate use of micro data in evaluating household welfare.

Economics of the Family
Economics of the Family

Author: Martin Browning

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-06-05

Total Pages: 511

ISBN-13: 0521791596

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This book provides a comprehensive, modern, and self-contained account of the research in the growing area of family economics. It is intended for graduate students in economics and for researchers in other fields interested in the economic approach to the family.

Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Developing Countries
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Developing Countries

Author: Lawrence James Haddad

Publisher: International Food Policy Research Insitute

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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Surveying a broad body of theory and evidence, the contributors examine the many social and cultural factors that influence decisions at the family and household level about the allocation of time, income, assets, and other resources.

Rational Behavior and Bargaining Equilibrium in Games and Social Situations
Rational Behavior and Bargaining Equilibrium in Games and Social Situations

Author: John C. Harsanyi

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780521311830

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This is a paperback edition of a major contribution to the field, first published in hard covers in 1977. The book outlines a general theory of rational behaviour consisting of individual decision theory, ethics, and game theory as its main branches. Decision theory deals with a rational pursuit of individual utility; ethics with a rational pursuit of the common interests of society; and game theory with an interaction of two or more rational individuals, each pursuing his own interests in a rational manner.

Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being
Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being

Author: Jon Elster

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993-07-30

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780521457224

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Constituting the most advanced and comprehensive treatment of one of the cardinal issues in social theory, a diverse group of social scientists address the problems, principles and practices involved in comparing the well-being of different individuals.