Kinship and consumption: the effect of spouses' outside options on household productivity

This paper provides a causal reason for failure in productive efficiency in the household and explains why some households may be less efficient than others. In the theoretical model, spouses make labour allocation decisions in each period to generate income, facing a threat of divorce in the next...

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Main Author: Telalagic, S
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2014