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Conference

Intrahousehold Resources Conference 2026

Tuesday, May 19 - Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Organizers: Costas Meghir (Yale University), Pierre André Chiappori (Columbia University), Laurens Cherchye (University of Leuven), Bram de Rock (ECARES, ULB), and Frederic Vermuelen (University of Leuven)

Agenda

Tuesday, May 19

09:30 - 10:00

“Collective Models of Intrahousehold Allocations: Theory (Static Framework)”

Pierre-André Chiappori (Columbia University)
Joint work with Olivier Donni and Ivar Ekeland

10:00 - 10:30

“Point-Identification of Collective Household Models”

Arthur Lewbel (Boston College)
Joint work with Krishna Pendakur

10:30 - 11:00

“The Revealed Preference Approach to Analyzing Collective Household Consumption: A Practical Roadmap”

Frederic Vermeulen (University of Leuven)
Joint work with Laurens Cherchye and Bram De Rock

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00

“Marriage, Divorce and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital”

Monica Costa Dias (Bristol University and IFS)
Joint work with Costas Meghir and Pierre-André Chiappori

12:00 - 12:30

“Intrahousehold Private Consumption: Individual Responses to Wage Shocks in Developed Countries”

José Alberto Molina (University of Zaragoza)
Joint work with Ignacio Belloc

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 14:30 

“Bargaining Models of Intrahousehold Allocations”

Olivier Donni (Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
Joint work with Olivier Bargain

14:30 - 15:00

“Intrahousehold Welfare and Allocations with Private and Public Goods”

Yoko Okuyama (Uppsala University)
Joint work with Pierre-André Chiappori and Costas Meghir

15:00 - 15:30

“Intrahousehold Allocations and Nutrition in Developing Countries”

Rossella Calvi (Rice University)

Joint work with Jacob Penglase

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:30

“Non-Collective Approaches to Household Behaviour”

Valérie Lechene (UCL)
Joint work with Ian Preston

16:30 - 17:00

“Marital Matching and Intrahousehold Allocation”

Bernard Salanié (Columbia University)

19:30

Dinner at Polpetta

Wednesday, May 20

10:00 - 10:30

“Marriage Formation and Within-Household Resource Allocation: A Search-Matching and Bargaining Framework”

Jean-Marc Robin (Sciences Po)
Joint work with colleagues

10:30 - 11:00

“Intrahousehold Labor Supply as an Insurance to External Financial and Labor Market Shocks”

Richard Blundell (UCL and IFS) and Itay Saporta-Eksten (University of Manchester)
Joint work with Luigi Pistaferri

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00

“New Insights in the Economics of Dowry and Bride Price”

Selma Walther (University of Sussex)
Joint work with Gaurav Chiplunkar

12:00 - 12:30

“Risk Sharing Within the Household”

Alex Theloudis (Tilburg University)
Joint work with Pierre-André Chiappori and Jorge Velilla

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 14:30 

“Household Decision-Making and Child Outcomes: Measurement and Testing of the Maternal Argument”

Ingvild Almås (Zürich University)

Joint work with Pedro Carneiro, Bet Caeyers and Tillmann Eymess

14:30 - 15:00

“Family Secrets: How Private Information Shapes Household Behavior”

Suzanne Bellue (CREST, IP Paris)
Joint work with Michéle Tertilt, Matthias Doepke, and Sally Zhang

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee Break

15:30 - 16:00

“Assortative Mating and Children”

Edoardo Ciscato (University of Leuven)
Joint work with Carla Guerriero

16:00 - 16:30

“Marriage Markets, Labor Markets and Divorce”

Paula Calvo (Arizona State University)
Joint work with Ilse Lindenlaub and Ana Reynoso

19:30

Dinner at Yacht Club Monaco

Conference Venue / Hotel Information

Novotel Monte Carlo 
16 Bd Princesse Charlotte, 98000 Monaco

Reservations are now closed. Due to the proximity of the event dates, please contact the hotel directly regarding availability:

Telephone: 00377 99 99 83 06
mateo.osorio@accor.com

Cancellations

  • Free cancellations until April 18, 2026 
  • April 19 - May 2, 2026 cancellations or modifications incur one-night penalty 
  • May 3, 2026 onward, reservations are non-refundable, non-modifiable, and non-cancellable