Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element … intrahousehold allocation of resources and welfare. We show how the sharing rule, which characterizes the within-household … allocations, can be identified from data on household consumption and labor supply. We also argue that a measure based on …

the recovery of theory-consistent discount rates for each individual within a particular household under study. We find … household choice are the product of individual preference nonstationarities or the result of individual heterogeneity and … renegotiation within the collective unit. An empirical application to household-level microdata highlights that an explicit …

In this paper, we analyze the nature of intra-household allocations and commitment using unique panel data on … individual-specific within-household consumption expenditures and on time used for leisure, market production and home production …. Specifically we estimate a dynamic collective model of the household in which husbands and wives care about private consumption …

We develop a novel framework to analyze the structural implications of the marriage market for household consumption …. We define a revealed preference characterization of efficient household consumption when the marriage is stable … characterization generates testable conditions even with a single consumption observation per household and heterogeneous individual …

aim is to determine the effects of the 2002 reforms of the value added tax (VAT) rate on aggregate household welfare … decreased aggregate household welfare; (2) the reforms further affected the welfare of households in the first three quintiles … household welfare without compromising on tax revenues. …