Distributional effects in household models: separate spheres and income pooling

We derive distributional effects for a non-cooperative alternative to the unitary model of household behaviour. We consider the Nash equilibria of a voluntary contributions to public goods game. Our main result is that, in general, the two partners either choose to contribute to different public goo...

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Main Authors: Browning, M, Lechene, V, Chiappori, P
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2006