not clear cut. Contrary to the usual practice of considering the allocation of household income over consumption and … saving to be the result of one particular household’s member decision, we present here a more individually based analysis of …On the basis of a concatenation of fifteen Belgian household budget surveys from 1995/96 to 2010, we investigate the …

heterogeneity across individuals in different households, and requires only a single consumption observation per household. Our main …We propose a novel structural method to empirically identify economies of scale in household consumption. We assume … collective households with consumption technologies that define the public and private nature of expenditures through Barten …

We apply the collective consumption model of Browning, Chiappori and Lewbel (2006) to analyse economic well-being and … poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a consumption technology that captures the economies … of scale of living in a couple, and a sharing rule that governs the intra-household allocation of resources. The model is …