The phrase "affect the household" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how certain actions, events, or changes influence or have an impact on a home or family environment.
Example: "The new policy changes may significantly affect the household budget and spending habits."
Alternatives: "impact the home" or "influence the family".
Clearly, these variables affect the household specialization of married couples, and the effects differ by sex of the immigrant.
Another reason is that remittances may affect the household income by influencing labor supply of family members who remain in the country, especially in rural communities8.
Children arrive deterministically to the household and do not have a direct effect on utility, but they affect the household by deflating consumption by their adult equivalent and through changing the cost for the woman of going to work.
To account for this and to control for agro-climatic differences that could affect the household attitudes; we include two regional dummies in the probit model, namely the CENTRE, with 1 for farmers from the Centre of Benin and 0 otherwise, and the NORTHW, with 1 if the farmer is located in the Northwest-Benin and 0 otherwise.
Intermarriage between a native and immigrant can affect the household's supply of labor hours.
Including a large set of household's, child's, and community's characteristic at the time of the 2010 earthquake attempts to wash away unobserved components that might affect the household's vulnerability and decision about children's time use.
This framework suggests how an external negative shock might affect the households' decision in developing countries.
Table 7 presents how the different variables considered in this study affect the households' choice for certain coping strategies.
(The number used to be higher, but baby boomers are getting old — the same thing that affects the household survey).
It is seen that withdrawal of the USA adversely affects the household income and labour income, both of skilled and unskilled incomes.
The instrument affects the household's propensity to send members abroad but is unlikely to be correlated with any unobservable household or women attributes that affect the occurrence of pregnancy and child health care (and knowledge of contraceptive methods).
