The transferable utility hypothesis underlies important theoretical results in household economics. We provide a … revealed preference conditions that must be satisfied for observed household consumption behavior to be consistent with …

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 …

To understand the household decision-making process regarding food expenditures for children in poor households in … correlate with more traditional indicators. Finally, we document significant heterogeneity both between individuals and intra-household …

To understand the household decision-making process regarding food expenditures for children in poor households in … correlate with more traditional indicators. Finally, we document significant heterogeneity both between individuals and intra-household …

collective model of the household in order to investigate how parents allocate household resources. We show that household … analyse these policy interventions. We end this paper by proposing such a simple and tractable model of household behaviour …

model of the household with consumption, production and revealed preference conditions for stability on the marriage market …? We answer these questions using a structural model of the household and a rich panel dataset from Malawi. We propose a …

problem can be solved if production shifters are available. …

We propose a method to identify bounds (i.e. set identification) on the sharing rule for a general collective household … bounds by applying revealed preference restrictions implied by the collective model to the household's continuous aggregate … assignable within the household, though having such information tightens the bounds. An empirical application demonstrates the …

We propose a method to identify bounds (i.e. set identification) on the sharing rule for a general collective household … bounds by applying revealed preference restrictions implied by the collective model to the household's continuous aggregate … assignable within the household, though having such information tightens the bounds. An empirical application demonstrates the …

We propose a collective labor supply model with household production that generalizes an original model of Blundell … more for their children than fathers. -- collective model ; labor supply ; time use ; public goods ; household production … the share in the household's nonlabor income. Finally, and perhaps surprisingly, we do not find evidence that mothers care …