Pooling of income and sharing of consumption within households.

There are extensive literatures within economics and economic psychology on the allocation of household income within the household. These two literatures are largely disjoint but both use a concept of ‘income pooling’. In economics this refers to the independence of household decisions from who r...

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Main Authors: Bonke, J, Browning, M
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Department of Economics (University of Oxford) 2009