Household Economic Behaviors

Professor José Alberto Molina received his Ph. D. in Economics from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) in 1992. He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in September 2006. Currently, he is the Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Zaragoza. He has been a Visiting Fellow at FEDEA (Madrid, Spain) and at Warwick University (UK). He is Associate Editor of Applied Economics, Applied Economics Letters, the International Journal of Consumer Studies and the Journal of Family and Economic Issues. His main research topic is household economic behavior and welfare, with particular interest in labor economics and intra-household allocation. Professor Molina is also working on projects related to efficient bargaining in families with children. His work has been published in the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Applied Economics, Economics of Education Review, Empirical Economics, the Journal of Agricultural Economics, the Journal of Family and Economic Issues, the Journal of Policy Modeling, Research in Economics, Review of Economics of the Household, and Urban Studies, among others.

Introduction.-Non-unitary Models of Household Behaviour: a Survey of the Literature.-Independent Individual Decision-makers in Household Models and the New Home Economics.-Household Time Use, Inequality and Taxation.-Revealed Preference Tests for Collective Household Behavior.-Collective Labour Supply of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in the Netherlands.-The Effects of Marriage on Couples’ Allocation of Time: Some between Market and Non-market Hours.-Dads Matter? Or Is It Just their Money that Matters? Unpicking the Effects of Separation on Educational Outcomes.-Measuring the Transmission of Economic Shocks among the Household Members of the Same Extended Family