expenditure patterns of school-age children. We estimate a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System, and find that, whilst most … commodities are normal goods, sweets and toys are luxury items for children. Children of lone parents have lower budget shares for … suggesting that children mimic their parent?s expenditure patterns. …

Household composition can be expected to affect the allocation of household expenditure among goods, at the very least … because of economies of scale as household size increases and because different people have different needs (adults versus … children, for example). Specifying demographic effects correctly in demand analysis is important both in order to estimate …

have more command over household resources. Baseline results on children's shares are robust to using alternative … joint consumption. In this paper, we extend the collective model of household consumption to recover mother's, father's and … children's shares together with economies of scale, using the observation of adult-specific goods and an extended version of …

A common approach to defining equivalence scales is to consider a household modelled as if it maximizes a single … utility function. This may be founded on an assumption of the household maximizing a welfare function of individual utilities …. For a positive analysis of the household, this may be appropriate, but it is argued that basing inter-household …

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 …

incorporates household consumption and family labour supply decisions. We derive analytical expressions based on approximations for …

ownership and expenses, levels and paths of health status, number of household members, and out-of -pocket medical expenditures …

way a single representative household would behave. This analytical approach requires that incentives of the poor and the … available at the household level, and individuals living in multimember households have the potential to share goods within the … household. The analytical approach of modern macroeconomics would require that intra-household sharing is also strictly aligned …

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