scales. Our method recovers the technology by solely exploiting preference information revealed by households' consumption …We propose a novel structural method to empirically identify economies of scale in household consumption. We assume … collective households with consumption technologies that define the public and private nature of expenditures through Barten …

We adopt the collective approach to consumer behavior with egoistic agents, and assume that the household consumption …

private consumption of market goods. They also depend on the consumption of domestic goods, which are produced by combining …. The data contains detailed information about the spouses' time use and the intrahousehold allocation of all expenditures … collective model. We obtain interesting (and plausible) empirical results. Spouses'; preferences depend on the consumption of …

joint consumption. In this paper, we extend the collective model of household consumption to recover mother's, father's and … measures of poverty show that parents are highly compensated by the scale economies due to joint consumption. -- collective …

consumption goods involved (smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol) and their role as anxiety reducing goods which suggests that … adequate to deal with the type of lifestyle consumption goods considered here. We indicate the lines along which a model needs …

model of the household with consumption, production and revealed preference conditions for stability on the marriage market …. We define marital instability in terms of the consumption gains to remarrying another individual in the same marriage … market, and to being single. We find that a 1 percentage point increase in the wife's estimated consumption gains from …