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 … scales. Our method recovers the technology by solely exploiting preference information revealed by households' consumption …

private consumption of market goods. They also depend on the consumption of domestic goods, which are produced by combining … collective model. We obtain interesting (and plausible) empirical results. Spousesﾒ 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 …

consumption model. Unlike the effects of distribution factors, it is well known that the level of the sharing rule cannot be …