The Cost of Children: May the Collective Approach to Household Behavior Help?.

This collective approach to household consumption behavior tries to infer from variables supposed to affect general bargaining position of household members information on the allocation of consumptions goods and tasks among them. This paper investigates the extension of previous work to the case where children may be considered as a public consumption good by the two adult members of a household.

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Year of publication:	1999
Authors:	Bourguignon, F.
Institutions:	Département et Laboratoire d'Économie Théorique Appliquée (DELTA), École Normale Supérieure (ENS Paris)
Subject:	CONSUMPTION \| CHILDREN \| RESOURCE ALLOCATION

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Series:	DELTA Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	26 pages
Classification:	J13 - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; D11 - Consumer Economics: Theory
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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