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. …

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. …

-purchase time are determined simultaneously. We use this model to explore the relationship between a household's cereal purchases … Program for Women, Infants, and Children are found to purchase a larger quantity of cereals when making a purchase and also … are heavily censored at zero. The traditional approach for working with such data in demand estimation usually involves …

primarily changes income and expenditure patterns, widowhood fundamentally changes the structure of the household. Beside high … consumption are lost. This paper applies the Lewbel and Pendakur (2008) collective household model to expenditure data on elderly … households in Switzerland. The findings suggest that between 40 and 50% of household resources are assigned to wives and both …

post-retirement motives to affect household behavior while the number and age of all children can affect the marginal …I study how children affect the marginal utility of non-durable consumption. I estimate by Maximum Likelihood a … structural economic model of optimal intertemporal allocation of consumption in the presence of children using high quality …

increased sample size. Finally, we use our method to analyze decisions made by dyads of children in an experimental setting. We … find that children’s decisions are particularly characterized by varying levels of altruism. We relate this heterogeneity … across children to age, gender, and the degree of friendship in dyads. …

. Sharing between parents and children is well predicted on average while the model detects key aspects like the extent of pro ….e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is …

We demonstrate that interpersonal comparisons lead to "keeping up with the Joneses"-behavior. Using annual household … the consumption level of all households who are perceived to be richer, on household savings and consumption. When …

. Sharing between parents and children is well predicted on average while the model detects key aspects like the extent of pro ….e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is …

.Sharing between parents and children is well predicted on average while the model detects key aspects like the extent of pro ….e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is …