We extend the collective model of household consumption to account explicitly for child welfare and economies of scale. Each household member is characterized by specific prefer- ences and the (unspecified) allocation process is assumed to be efficient. Following the principle of the Rothbarth...

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 characterized by speci.c preferences. Following the principle of...