Udry (1996) uses household survey data and finds that the allocation of resources within households is Pareto … years, households try to avoid losses from Pareto inefficiency. -- intrahousehold allocation ; collective household models … ; Pareto efficiency ; Africa …

prediction of these models has not been validated, essentially because intrahousehold allocation is seldom observed. We provide … expenditures of each family member. We also test the core assumption (efficiency) and homogeneity assumptions used for …

China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of … quantifying their contributions to growth. In this paper, we develop a three-sector dynamic model to quantify the sources of China … continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …

This paper looks at how individual preferences for the allocation of government spending change along the life cycle …. Our findings are consistent with a body of literature arguing that conflict across generations over the allocation of …

from limited spaces but also from inefficient allocation. By means of simulations under different scenarios, we contrast a … stylized version of decentralized allocation to a centralized allocation mechanism which applies a deferred …

, the composition effects may also reflect an efficiency enhancing mechanism. We use a newly available dataset based on … allocative efficiency on wages paid across firms. We show that this measure has improved over time since prior to the recent … measure of allocative efficiency over this period correlates positively with measures of economic activity (evolution of …