Review of Economics of the Household

2003 - 2025

Current editor(s): Shoshana Grossbard

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Volume 8, issue 4, 2010

No time to lose: time constraints and physical activity in the production of health pp. 409-432

John Mullahy and Stephanie Robert

Marriage: for love, for money…and for time? pp. 433-457

Victoria Vernon

Consumption, time and the environment pp. 459-477

Mario Cogoy

Children’s and parents’ time use: empirical evidence on investment in human capital in France, Germany and Italy pp. 479-504

Ana Rute Cardoso, Elsa Fontainha and Chiara Monfardini

The effect of income shocks on food insufficiency pp. 505-526

Laura Leete and Neil Bania

Equivalence scales, the cost of children and household consumption patterns in Italy pp. 527-549

Fabrizio Balli and Silvia Tiezzi

Erratum to: Equivalence scales, the cost of children and household consumption patterns in Italy pp. 551-552

Fabrizio Balli and Silvia Tiezzi

Volume 8, issue 3, 2010

Whose time? Who saves? Introduction to a special issue on couples’ savings, time use and children pp. 289-296

Shoshana Grossbard and Elena Stancanelli

Family labor supply, taxation and saving in an imperfect capital market pp. 297-323

Patricia Apps and Ray Rees

Examining the impact of alternative power measures on individual time use in American and Danish couple households pp. 325-343

Nabanita Datta Gupta and Leslie Stratton

An empirical analysis of the time allocation of Italian couples: are they responsive? pp. 345-369

Hans Bloemen, Silvia Pasqua and Elena Stancanelli

Parental employment and time with children in Spain pp. 371-391

Maria Gutiérrez-Domènech

Home-leaving decisions of daughters and sons pp. 393-408

Maria Chiuri and Daniela Del Boca

Volume 8, issue 2, 2010

Effects of prenatal care on maternal postpartum behaviors pp. 171-197

Nancy Reichman, Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan and Ofira Schwartz-Soicher

The labor supply effects of child care costs and wages in the presence of subsidies and the earned income tax credit pp. 199-230

Chris Herbst

The availability of child care centers, perceived search costs and parental life satisfaction pp. 231-253

Chikako Yamauchi

A comparison of family policy designs of Australia and Norway using microsimulation models pp. 255-287

Guyonne Kalb and Thor Thoresen

Volume 8, issue 1, 2010

The labor market adjustment of immigrants pp. 1-5

Barry Chiswick and Magnus Lofstrom

Testing the immigrant assimilation hypothesis with longitudinal data pp. 7-27

Michael Beenstock, Barry Chiswick and Ari Paltiel

The quantity and quality of new immigrants to the US pp. 29-51

Sarah Bohn

International job search: Mexicans in and out of the US pp. 53-82

Silvio Rendon and Alfredo Cuecuecha

Understanding the workweek of foreign born workers in the United States pp. 83-104

Fernando Lozano

Employment effects of spatial dispersal of refugees pp. 105-146

Anna Damm and Michael Rosholm

On the relative rewards to immigration: a comparison of the relative labour market position of Indians in the USA, the UK and India pp. 147-169

Augustin de Coulon and Jonathan Wadsworth

Volume 7, issue 4, 2009

Return to work after childbirth: does parental leave matter in Europe? pp. 341-360

Chiara Pronzato

Spousal influences on parents’ non-market time choices pp. 361-394

Rachel Connelly and Jean Kimmel

Childcare and labor force participation in the Netherlands: the importance of attitudes and opinions pp. 395-421

Edwin van Gameren and Ingrid Ooms

Substance use among adolescent students with consideration of budget constraints pp. 423-446

Sara Markowitz and John Tauras

Intra-household inequality in transitional Russia pp. 447-471

Ekaterina Kalugina, Catherine Sofer and Natalia Radtchenko

Volume 7, issue 3, 2009

Health and the household pp. 219-226

Richard Anderson and Michael Grossman

The connection between maternal employment and childhood obesity: inspecting the mechanisms pp. 227-255

Angela Fertig, Gerhard Glomm and Rusty Tchernis

Physical inactivity and working hour inflexibility: evidence from a U.S. sample of older men pp. 257-281

Chung-Ping Loh

Who cares and how much: exploring the determinants of co-residential informal care pp. 283-303

Emmanouil Mentzakis, Paul McNamee and Mandy Ryan

Who cares and how much: exploring the determinants of co-residential informal care pp. 305-305

Emmanouil Mentzakis, Paul McNamee and Mandy Ryan

How do health shocks influence retirement decisions? pp. 307-321

Kerry Anne McGeary

Long-term care of the disabled elderly: do children increase caregiving by spouses? pp. 323-339

Liliana Pezzin, Robert Pollak and Barbara Schone

Volume 7, issue 2, 2009

Poverty and its persistence: a comparison of natives and immigrants in Sweden pp. 105-132

Jorgen Hansen and Roger Wahlberg

The potential of a couples approach to employment assistance: results of a nonexperimental evaluation pp. 133-158

Rachel Gordon and Carolyn Heinrich

Home production and wages: evidence from the American Time Use Survey pp. 159-178

Joni Hersch

Gender wage differences and human capital in the early twentieth century: the case of the paper box industry in New York pp. 179-188

Donald Vitaliano

Estimating the impacts of household behavior on youth smoking: evidence from Ontario, Canada pp. 189-218

Anindya Sen

Volume 7, issue 1, 2009

Decision-making by children pp. 1-30

Shelly Lundberg, Jennifer Romich and Kwok Ping Tsang

The distribution of financial well-being and income within the household pp. 31-42

Jens Bonke and Martin Browning

Marriage market imbalances and labor force participation of Canadian women pp. 43-57

John Emery and Ana Ferrer

The impact of biological preferences on parental investments in children and step-children pp. 59-81

Naoko Akashi-Ronquest

Sexual orientation and self-reported lying pp. 83-104

Nathan Berg and Donald Lien

Volume 6, issue 4, 2008

The economics of gay and lesbian couples: Introduction to a special issue on gay and lesbian households pp. 311-325

Shoshana Grossbard and Lisa Jepsen

Registered domestic partnerships among gay men and lesbians: the role of economic factors pp. 327-346

M. Lee Badgett, Gary Gates and Natalya Maisel

Assessing the geographic distribution of same sex and opposite sex couples across the United States: implications for claims of causality between traditional marriage and same sex unions pp. 347-367

John Graham and Jason Barr

Is there a ‘marriage premium’ for gay men? pp. 369-389

Madeline Zavodny

Sexual orientation, income, and non-pecuniary economic outcomes: new evidence from young lesbians in Australia pp. 391-408

Christopher Carpenter

Marriage, partnership and sexual orientation: a study of British university academics and administrators pp. 409-422

Alison Booth and Jeff Frank

The effects of sexual orientation and marital status on how couples hold their money pp. 423-446

Marieka Klawitter

Volume 6, issue 3, 2008

A demographic analysis of the family structure experiences of children in the United States pp. 193-221

David Blau and Wilbert van der Klaauw

The response of household parental investment to child endowments pp. 223-242

David Loughran, Ashlesha Datar and M. Kilburn

The quality of time spent with children in Australian households pp. 243-266

Charlene Kalenkoski and Gigi Foster

On the underestimation of migration’s income and poverty impact pp. 267-284

Maurice Schiff

Effect of agricultural policy on succession decisions of farm households pp. 285-307

Ashok Mishra and Hisham El-Osta

Cohort-level sex ratio effects on women’s labor force participation pp. 309-309

Shoshana Grossbard and Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes

Volume 6, issue 2, 2008

Gender preference, biased sex ratio, and parental investments in single-child households pp. 91-110

Michael Leung and Junsen Zhang

Do women value marriage more? The effect of obesity on cohabitation and marriage in the USA pp. 111-126

Sankar Mukhopadhyay

Women’s family-related career breaks: a long-term British perspective pp. 127-167

Miguel Malo and Fernando Muñoz-Bullón

A public good version of the collective household model: an empirical approach with an application to British household data pp. 169-191

Chris Klaveren, Bernard Praag and Henriette Maassen van den Brink

Volume 6, issue 1, 2008

Does housework matter anymore? The shifting impact of housework on economic inequality pp. 1-28

Cathleen Zick, W. Bryant and Sivithee Srisukhumbowornchai

The quality–quantity trade-off in fertility across parent earnings levels: a test for credit market failure pp. 29-45

Nathan Grawe

A household production model of demand for childcare and meals: theory and evidence from the Philippines pp. 47-64

Yoo-Mi Chin

PERSPECTIVE ARTICLE: The impact of Nordic countries’ family friendly policies on employment, wages, and children pp. 65-89

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nina Smith and Mette Verner