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Do you have to win it to fix it? : a longitudinal study of lottery winners and their health care demand

Cheng, Terence Chai; Costa-Font, Joan; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2015

more likely to have private health insurance. Larger winners are also more likely to drop coverage earlier, possibly after …We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in … the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services …

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Kinky choices, dictators and split might : a non-cooperative model for household consumption and labor supply

Boone, Jan; Wiel, Karen van der; Vermeulen, Frederic - 2009

It is unlikely that husbands and wives always agree on exactly what public goods to buy. Nor do they necessarily agree on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We therefore model consumption and labor supply behavior of a couple in a non-cooperative setting...

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Married with children : a collective labor supply model with detailed time use and intrahousehold expenditure information

Cherchye, Laurens; Rock, Bram de; Vermeulen, Frederic - 2010

We propose a collective labor supply model with household production that generalizes an original model of Blundell, Chiappori and Meghir (2005). In our model, adults' individual preferences do not only depend on own leisure and individual private consumption of market goods. They also depend on...

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A simple identification strategy for Gary Becker's time allocation model

Cherchye, Laurens; Rock, Bram de; Vermeulen, Frederic - 2015

The implementation of Gary Becker's (1965) time allocation model is hampered by the fact that values of the different time uses are usually not observed. In practice, one often assumes that the value of time is uniform across time uses by using market wages. This approach implies a fundamental...

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Marital matching, economies of scale and intrahousehold allocations

Cherchye, Laurens; Rock, Bram de; Surana, Khushboo; … - 2016

We propose a novel structural method to empirically identify economies of scale in household consumption. We assume collective households with consumption technologies that define the public and private nature of expenditures through Barten scales. Our method recovers the technology by solely...

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Where did it go wrong? : marriage and divorce in Malawi

Cherchye, Laurens; Rock, Bram de; Walther, Selma Telalagic - 2016

Do individuals divorce for economic reasons? Can we measure the attractiveness of new matches in the marriage market? We answer these questions using a structural model of the household and a rich panel dataset from Malawi. We propose a model of the household with consumption, production and...

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Nonparametric analysis of household labor supply : goodness-of-fit and power of the unitary and the collective model

Cherchye, Laurens (contributor); … - 2006

We compare the empirical performance of unitary and collective labor supply models, using representative data from the Dutch DNB Household Survey. We conduct a nonparametric analysis that avoids the distortive impact of an erroneously specified functional form for the preferences and/or the...

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Opening the black box of intra-household decision-making : theory and non-parametric empirical tests of general collective consumption models

Cherchye, Laurens (contributor); Rock, Bram de (contributor) - 2005

We non-parametrically test a general collective consumption model with public consumption and externalities inside the household. We further propose a novel approach to model special cases of the general collective model. These special cases include alternative restrictions on the 'sharing rule'...

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Sharing rule identification for general collective consumption models

Cherchye, Laurens; Rock, Bram de; Lewbel, Arthur; … - 2012

We propose a method to identify bounds (i.e. set identification) on the sharing rule for a general collective household consumption model. Unlike the effects of distribution factors, it is well known that the level of the sharing rule cannot be uniquely identified without strong assumptions on...

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A new year, a new you? : heterogeneity and self-control in food purchases

Cherchye, Laurens; Rock, Bram de; Griffith, Rachel; … - 2017

We document considerable within-person (over time) variation in diet quality that is not fully explained by responses to fluctuations in the economic environment. We propose a two-selves model that provides a structural interpretation to this variation, in which food choices are a compromise...

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