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 …

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

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

consumption. In this paper, we study individual consumption in different types of households, with a focus on family structures … the intra-household allocation of resources and the extent of consumption sharing. We apply our methodology using data … existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take …