There is a large empirical literature on policy measures targeted at children but surprisingly very little theoretical … targeting children through two general policies, namely selective commodity taxation and cash transfer to family with children …

We propose a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children …). Following the principle of the Rothbarth approach, the identification of the children's share requires the observation of at …

There is a large empirical literature on policy measures targeted at children but surprisingly very little theoretical … targeting children through two general policies, namely selective commodity taxation and cash transfer to family with children …

We apply an extension of the Rothbarth approach to estimate the share of household resources accruing to children (i ….e., the cost of children) in Ireland. The method also allows us to identify the economies of scale in the household and … variation. The identification of the children's share requires the observation of adult-specific goods as in the traditional …

children's shares together with economies of scale, using the observation of adult-specific goods and an extended version of … the Rothbarth method. The application on data from Côte d'Ivoire shows that children command a reasonable fraction of … have more command over household resources. Baseline results on children's shares are robust to using alternative …