A Test of Collective Rationality for Multi-Person Households

This paper provides a test of efficiency of consumption decisions in households with many decision-makers. It also presents a method of determining the number of these decision-makers. Information on some distribution factors in needed to implement this approach.

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Year of publication:	2000
Authors:	Dauphin, Anyck ; Fortin, Bernard
Institutions:	Département d'Économique, Université Laval
Subject:	Intra-household allocation \| Collective model \| Polygamy \| Extended family \| Pareto optimality

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Cahiers de recherche.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	D11 - Consumer Economics: Theory ; D12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis ; D61 - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis ; D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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