expenditure patterns of school-age children. We estimate a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System, and find that, whilst most … commodities are normal goods, sweets and toys are luxury items for children. Children of lone parents have lower budget shares for … suggesting that children mimic their parent?s expenditure patterns. …

Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the … children through the "caring preferences" of their parents or has treated them as household public goods [Bourguignon (1999 … capacity nor the power to influence the household decision process. The literature on collective models has so far incorporated …

have more command over household resources. Baseline results on children's shares are robust to using alternative … joint consumption. In this paper, we extend the collective model of household consumption to recover mother's, father's and … children's shares together with economies of scale, using the observation of adult-specific goods and an extended version of …

on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We therefore model consumption and labor … expenses on children's goods that act as a public good in the spouses' preferences. We find that for couples with two or three … children the standard unitary model is strongly rejected in favor of our non-cooperative model. Moreover, it turns out that for …

This paper finds declining consumption expenditure between paydays, for a typical household in the working population …

expenditure patterns of school-age children. We estimate a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System, and find that, whilst most … commodities are normal goods, sweets and toys are luxury items for children. Children of lone parents have lower budget shares for … suggesting that children mimic their parent’s expenditure patterns. …

to model household behavior as a Nash-bargaining game. Since then, very few attempts have been made to operationalize … cooperative models of household labor supply for policy analysis. In this paper, we implement a Nash-bargaining model with … the likely role of taxation on intra-household negotiation. …