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 …

collective consumption model, while accounting for general (possibly non-convex) individual preferences. We establish a … nature of consumption externalities (positive or negative) in the intra-household allocation process is non-testable. The … same non-testability conclusion holds for privateness (with or without externalities) or publicness of consumption. By …

on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We therefore model consumption and labor …