To understand the household decision-making process regarding food expenditures for children in poor households in …) allocated money between themselves and nutritious meals for one of their children. First, we find strong empirical support for … children’s meals than men. Third, the spouses’ respective bargaining positions derived from consumption patterns strongly …

To understand the household decision-making process regarding food expenditures for children in poor households in …) allocated money between themselves and nutritious meals for one of their children. First, we find strong empirical support for … children's meals than men. Third, the spouses' respective bargaining positions derived from consumption patterns strongly …

We propose a novel structural method to empirically identify economies of scale in household consumption. We assume … behavior. The method imposes no parametric structure on household decision processes, accounts for unobserved preference … heterogeneity across individuals in different households, and requires only a single consumption observation per household. Our main …