.e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is …

-capita expenditures and ignore the extent of within-household inequality. Recent advances in the estimation of collective models suggest … stability upon exclusive goods across individuals or household types) and the observation of exclusive goods. So far, the …

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 …

We propose a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children … economies of scale in the household and indifference scales in Lewbel (2003)'s sense. We illustrate the method with an … application on the French Household Budget Survey …

We provide a nonparametric 'revealed preference' characterization of rational household behavior in terms of the … nature of consumption externalities (positive or negative) in the intra-household allocation process is non-testable. The …, monotonicity is testable for the model that assumes all household consumption is public …

that allow us to rationalise both the observed matches and the within-household allocations of time and money …

In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to … describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household … the main accent still lies on the development of theory. The novelty of this paper is that we empirically estimate the two …

Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the … capacity nor the power to influence the household decision process. The literature on collective models has so far incorporated … children through the "caring preferences" of their parents or has treated them as household public goods [Bourguignon (1999 …

We apply an extension of the Rothbarth approach to estimate the share of household resources accruing to children (i ….e., the cost of children) in Ireland. The method also allows us to identify the economies of scale in the household and …

likely to spend household resources on culture, and their joint consumption of such goods may be a potential reason for their …