Household collective models celebrate their thirtieth birthday. The collective approach constitutes, perhaps, the … to some excellent surveys of household collective models (Strauss et al., 2000; Vermeulen, 2002; Donni and Chiappori … papers, the collective framework has been used to provide theoretical results for a number of household issues; for example …

joint consumption. In this paper, we extend the collective model of household consumption to recover mother's, father's and … household resources, though not enough to avoid a very large extent of child poverty compared to what is found in traditional … have more command over household resources. Baseline results on children's shares are robust to using alternative …

household income and consumption are fully insured against health shocks even without access to health insurance. Household …

We show that the size of collateralized household debt determines an economy's vulnerability to crises of confidence …

-age male workers. As such, increases in the minimum wage are associated with increases in household consumption per capita in …

We develop a novel framework to analyze the structural implications of the marriage market for household consumption … patterns. We start by defining a revealed preference characterization of efficient household consumption when the marriage is … observation per household and individual preferences are heterogeneous across households. In addition, the characterization allows …

This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score … matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several household budget shares. Our results show a …

that allow us to rationalise both the observed matches and the within-household allocations of time and money. …