Are Children Decision‐Makers within the Household?

Household Expenditures on Children Household expenditures on children

Regression results suggest that household income and parental education are the main factors influencing expenditures on children's education, entertainment, and books; that children in single-parent or cohabiting households are disadvantaged is thus due mainly to the lower income and education levels of these households, not their marital status A n increasing number of children living in nont...

Consumption and the Within-Household Income Distribution:

Household Location and Migration within the Boston

HOUSEHOLD LOCATION AND MIGRATION WITHIN THE BOSTON METROPOLITAN REGION by PETER MURRAY ALLAMAN Submitted to the Department of City and Regional Planning on June 19, 1967, in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master in City Planning. The thesis of this study is that migration within a metropolitan area cannot be meaningfully understood except in terms of an explanation of ...

Spending Time and Money within the Household

We consider theoretically and empirically the allocation of time and money within the household. The novelty of our empirical work is that we have a survey which provides information on both time use and the allocation of some goods within the household, for the same households. Thus we can consider whether a partner who enjoys more leisure also receives more consumption, which looks like the o...

Assessing Within-Household Selection Methods in Household Mail Surveys

Household surveys are increasingly moving toward self-administered modes of data collection. To maintain a probability sample of the population, researchers must use probability methods to select adults within households. However, very little experimental methodological work has been conducted on within-household selection in mail surveys. In this study, we experimentally examine four methods—t...