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Basic Reading

• WBLY Chapter 4, "Economic Behaviour in the family"
• FA Chapter 7 (Money and the family)
• Walker, R., & Parker G. (1988). Money matters. London: Sage. Chaps 2,3 .....Short L
• Brannen, J. & Wilson, G. (1987). Give and take in Families. Chaps 2,3,7 ...... Box
• Pahl, J. (1989). Money & Marriage. London: Macmillan Chaps 5,6,7 ......TRC
• Pahl (1995). His money, her money: recent research on financial organisation in marriage. JOEP 16(3), 361-376 .......BJ

Additional material

1 Economic accounts of the family and the utility of children

• Burgoyne C.B. & Millar (1994). Enforcing child support obligations: the attitudes of separated fathers. Policy and Politics, 22, 95-104
• Wunderink (1995) Is family planning an economic decision. JOEP 16(3) 377-392 ......BJ
• Zelizer, V. (1985). Pricing the priceless child. New York: Basic Books. Preface & chap 7 ......301.4314
• Fawcett (1988). The value of children and the transition to parenthood. Marriage and Family Review 12, 11-34 ..Box
• Gershuny, J et al 'The domestic labour revolution: a process of lagged adaptation'. In M. Anderson et al The social and political economy of the household. Oxford: OUP .......339.47
• James et al (1992). The wife's employment family fit. In S.E.G. Lea, P. Webley and B.M.Young (eds), New Directions in Economic Psychology .......330.019
• Cheal, D., & Kampen, K. (1997).  Complementarity in the labor supply of husnabds and wives.  Journal of Socio-Economics, 26, 495-512.
• Lakhani & Hoover (1997). Child care use, earnings and retention desires of wives of employees. JoEP, 18, 87-110.
• Becker, G.S. (1991) A treatise on the family (enlarged edition). Chapters 1 and 2 (plus supplement to chap. 2 ) ..Box (this is for the economically minded!)

2. Money management in the household

• Burgoyne (1990), Money in marriage: How patterns of allocation both reflect and conceal power. Sociological Review 38(4), 634-665. .......BJ*
• Burgoyne & Morison (1997). Money in remarriage. Sociological Review, 45, 363-395.*
• Vogler (1994). Money in the household. In M. Anderson et al The social and political economy of the household. Oxford: OUP .......339.47
• Jakobson et al (1996). Social dilemmas within the family: do fairness heuristics explain how income changes are distributed? IAREP conference proceedings, pp. 319-331. .......330.019INT

• Burgoyne (1997), Shared or separate purses: How do couples 'choose' their system of financial management? XXII IAREP conference proceedings, Volume II, 687-697. .......330.019INT

3. Decision-making

• James, S (1996). Female household investment strategy in human and non-human capital with the risk of divorce. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, 25, 151-167 (available from Carole if not in library)
• Kirchler (1988), Household decision making, in HEP
• OR Kircher (1999). Household decision making, In Elgar pp 296-304
• Kirchler (1989), Kaufentscheidungen im privaten Haushalt .......SEGL
• Kirchler (1995). Studying economic decisions within private households. JOEP 16(3), 393-419 .......BJ
• Martinez-Salinas (1997), Family behaviour in the decision making process: Husband-wife influence. XXII IAREP conference proceedings, Volume II, 698-723. .......330.019INT
• Burgoyne (1995) Financial organisation and decision making within Western households. JOEP 16(3), 421-430 .......BJ
• Kirchler, E. (1999). Unbelievable similarity: accuracy in spouses repors on their partners tactics to influence joint economic decisions. Journal of Applied Psychology, 48 (3), 329-348

Questions for discussion

1. What remains hidden when the household is treated as a unit of economic analysis?
2. Why might money be a focus for disagreement within the family?
3. What light can economic psychology shed on the new economic problems that families may face in the future e.g children being financially dependent well into their twenties, increasing levels of insurance to cover medical costs?
4. Is it useful to treat the family as though it were an organisation?
5. Is gender really the key to understanding economic behaviour in the family?
6. Why don't couples take account of the risks of divorce in their financial planning?

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