Projects
Labour market choices and well-being of individuals inside households: preferences, opportunities or traditional role patterns? KU Leuven
The aim of our project is to better understand labour market outcomes by modelling the choice of a job as an interaction between job opportunities for individuals (what jobs are available and for whom?), job preferences of individuals (which individuals are willing to do these jobs?) and a household decision process turning the preferences of its members in a choice (how to distribute time spending on working, household tasks, children,... ...
On marriage markets and household decision behavior. KU Leuven
Do women work more when divorce laws are less favorable to them? How unequal is the distribution of time and money within couples? There is a growing interest in economics in questions like these. A key role is played by the collective model, which explicitly recognizes that multi-person households consist of different individuals with own preferences. Observed consumption and labor supply choices are then the result of the interaction ...
Care and income redistributive cycles in the lives of Europeans (CIRCLE). University of Antwerp
The interplay among household decision-making, gender relations and climate change adaptation policies. Evidence from a quasi-experimental impact study in the Morogoro region, Tanzania. University of Antwerp
One for all and all for cash? An inquiry into sustainable social network and collective action effects of cash transfers in rural Uganda. University of Antwerp
The impact of intra household decision making on the sustainability, efficiency and equitability of household farming in sub-Saharan Africa (INTRACOF). University of Antwerp
The paradox of Belgian inequality studies: Belgium less unequal than others? KU Leuven
Context
Inequality and poverty remain high on the agenda. The IMF has labelled inequality as the ‘defining challenge’ of our time because it signals a lack of income mobility and opportunity, and because it has important consequences for growth and macroeconomic stability, and carries a risk of concentrating decision making in the hands of a few. In the last fifteen years also the OECD has gathered ‘a significant body of evidence on ...