TY  - JOUR
AU  - Pollak,Robert A.
TI  - Bargaining Around the Hearth
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13142
PY  - 2007
Y2  - May 2007
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13142
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13142.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Robert Pollak
Washington University in St. Louis
Arts and Sciences
and the Olin Business School
Campus Box 1133
1 Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO  63130-4899
Tel: 314/935-4918
Fax: 314/935-6359
E-Mail: pollak@wustl.edu
AB  - In "Unpacking the Household: Informal Property Rights Around the Hearth" (Yale Law Journal, 2006) Robert Ellickson argues that as long as members of a household expect their relationship to continue, norms, rather than law, will determine allocations among them.  More specifically, Ellickson argues that in "midgame" household members either ignore the "endgame" completely or, if they do take endgame considerations into account, the relevant endgame considerations are determined by norms rather than by law. This paper examines the fit between Ellickson's claims and four bargaining models that economists have used to understand interactions within household and families.
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