Are better off households more unequal or less unequal?

A study was conducted to examine the implications of intra-household bargaining models for the behavior of intra-household inequality as a function of total household resources. A mathematical model of cooperation in household production was used to identify the Nash bargaining solution and to inve...

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Publicado en:Oxford Economic Papers Vol. 46; pp. 445 - 459
Autores principales: Kanbur, Ravi, Haddad, Lawrence
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / UK July 1994
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