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

.Sharing between parents and children is well predicted on average while the model detects key aspects like the extent of pro ….e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is …

This paper finds declining consumption expenditure between paydays, for a typical household in the working population …

This paper uses variation created by parental deaths in the amount of time children spend with each parent to examine … children who lost one parent during childhood, we find a series of striking patterns which show that the relationship is … largely causal. Relative to children who did not lose a parent, the education of the deceased parent is less important in …

Engel curves to investigate household expenditure patterns while controlling for household characteristics and find that FHH … spend significantly more money on the welfare of children and less on consumption of adult goods. In an attempt to explain … persons lacking the financial means to rely on themselves during old-age invest more in children who care for them in later …

on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We therefore model consumption and labor … expenses on children's goods that act as a public good in the spouses' preferences. We find that for couples with two or three … children the standard unitary model is strongly rejected in favor of our non-cooperative model. Moreover, it turns out that for …

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 …

women, childless couples and couples with children.The inclusion of personality traits among demographic shifters helps to … likely to spend household resources on culture, and their joint consumption of such goods may be a potential reason for their …

This paper studies the direct impact of households' debt on consumption over the business cycle. We use household …