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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 …
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.e., the cost of children) in Ireland. The method also allows us to identify the economies of scale in the household and …We apply an extension of the Rothbarth approach to estimate the share of household resources accruing to children (i … Rothbarth method. We compare our findings to previous results for Ireland. -- Consumer demand ; collective model ; sharing rule …
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In much of the developing world, cooking accounts for most of women's time in home production. Does reliance on biomass for cooking drive this time burden? To assess time-savings from shifting towards cleaner fuels, we revisit a clean energy information experiment in rural India. Treatment...
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of household air pollution (HAP) on mental health. We investigated the causal link between HAP exposure from the use of …
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This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behavior through the household life … electricity consumption follows an inverted U-shaped distribution as a function of the age of the household's head. Most notably … outcome has important implications for policy-making. Any public policy aimed at reducing household energy consumption should …
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This paper investigates the key factors affecting household energy expenditure in Egypt. Based upon the latest 2015 … Regularization technique to untangle the spectrum of household energy expenditure. Unsurprisingly, income, age, household size … impact, while socio-economic attributes have a much larger one. The largest variations in household energy expenditures in …
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theoretical perspective, the expected sign of the effect is ambiguous. We take advantage of the legalization of divorce in Ireland …
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This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland … position of the household in the income distribution and that behavioural response can potentially improve the welfare position …
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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 …
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household income and consumption are fully insured against health shocks even without access to health insurance. Household …
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