The family is a complex decision unit in which partners with potentially different objectives
make consumption, work and fertility decisions. Couples marry and divorce partly based on …

The evidence that the same income can lead to different household decisions, depending
on who the earner is, has led to an effort to replace the standard household model with the …

The study of gender and development is an area of inquiry fraught with tension between
“theoretical” and “practical” concerns. This article seeks to intervene in the standoff between …

Land use change and livelihood systems are often analyzed separately or with one “driving”
the other. This “driver-feedback” relationship has been buttressed by approaches to social …

This paper examines the role of environmental change as a driver of migration, a central
concern of areas of inquiry ranging from the Human Dimensions of Global Change research …

The Millennium Village Project (MVP) has come to embody hope for a new development
path that might succeed where previous efforts have failed. A closer consideration of this …

In a general equilibrium model, we allow for households with several, typically
heterogeneous, members; households that make (efficient) collective consumption …

Over the past two decades development has been shifting its focus toward smaller scales
and particular problems. As a result, the household has become an increasingly important …

Household metabolism is a concept that is concerned with the analysis of stocks and flows
of energy, matter, and information at the household scale. This paper starts by providing a …

Against the background of the current (economic) research which concentrates particularly
on individual and structural factors, this paper examines if and to what extent social norms …