We propose a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children, i.e., the cost of children …. The household behavior is represented according to the collective approach. That is, each household member is … into account economies of scale. We illustrate the method with an application on the French Household Budget Survey. …

We suggest a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children. The household behavior is … represented according to the collective approach. That is, each household member is characterized by specific preferences … parents' bargaining. We illustrate the method with an application to the French Household Budget Survey. …

'Ivoire using a collective model of household consumption. Identification relies on the observation of adult-specific goods, as in … the Rothbarth method, and a joint estimation on couples and singles. Results show that children's shares are small and … decline quickly with household size. It results that child poverty, measured on the basis of individual allocations within …

identi?ed thanks to the estimation of individual Engel curves on single individuals, the identi?cation of the resource share … method. The useful aspect of the present approach is that it requires only the estimation of Engel curves on cross …

household behavior that permits identification and estimation of concepts such as these. We model households in terms of the … "indifference scales," as well as consumption economies of scale, the household's resource sharing rule or members' bargaining power …

The structural consumer demand methods used to estimate the parameters of collective household models are typically … system. Our restriction has an interpretation in terms of the behaviour of household scale economies and is testable. Our … method identifies the levels of (not just changes in) household resource shares, and a variant of equivalence scales called …

collective model of household consumption. Identification relies on the observation of adult-specific goods, as in the Rothbarth … method, and a joint estimation on couples and singles. Our results show that men and women's shares of total expenditure are …

focus on private goods to track the changes in intrahousehold resource allocation. Our estimation results show that the … allocation of resources within household tend to move to the disadvantage of women after childbirth. One additional child is … associated with at least 2.6 percentage points decrease in womens private expenditure share. Our estimation results reject the …

Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element …, measures of inequality that ignore intra household allocations are both incomplete and misleading. We discuss determinants of … intra household allocation of resources and welfare. We show how the sharing rule, which characterizes the within household …

because it ignores public good and the allocation of time to market work, leisure and household production. We develop a money … metric measure of welfare that accounts for public goods (by using personalized prices) household production and for the …