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 … household decision-making process. -- Intra-household allocation ; collective household models ; children ; demand analysis …

We present identification and estimation results for the "collective" model of labour supply in which there are … couples without children. The implications of the unitary framework are rejected while those of the collective approach are …

In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for two-earner households. The … novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collective household model, where the internally produced goods and … are equally weighted in the household utility function; (3) Differences in the ratio of the partners' hourly wages are …

own consumption and children's wellbeing, estimation is complicated by endowment heterogeneity and by the fact that … parents may compensate or reinforce children's endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation … childhood parental employment and subsequent education of children. In a model in which parental preferences are separable in …

In this paper, we study the effects of extra-school activities on children's non-cognitive development, using data from … the Millennium Cohort Study (UK) and focusing on children aged 7-11 years old. We classify the time spent out of school … data. Results show the beneficial effects on children's behaviour of sports, school-related activities, time with parents …

-old children in Turkey. As the source of exogenous variation in maternal schooling, we use mothers' exposure to the 1997 education … mothers' educational attainment and a rise in children's readiness to learn. Our finding is novel because it measures … suggestive evidence of a positive impact on children's social-emotional development. Examining the channels, we find that both …