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household consumption expenditure in the Sultanate by analyzing the long term relationship between the variables of interest …
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This paper tests three hypotheses concerning intra-household resource allocation in rural China. First, whether … increasing the women's bargaining power alters household expenditure patterns. Second, whether households allocate fewer …: lower female outlay equivalent ratios for adult goods' greater sensitivity of household health spending to young boys than …
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individual-specific within-household consumption expenditures and on time used for leisure, market production and home production …In this paper, we analyze the nature of intra-household allocations and commitment using unique panel data on …. Specifically we estimate a dynamic collective model of the household in which husbands and wives care about private consumption …
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In this paper, we investigate the link between intra-household resource allocation and familial ties between household …" familial ties (e.g. a nuclear family household) achieve near Pareto efficient allocation of productive resources and Pareto … efficient allocation of consumption while households with "weaker" familial ties (e.g. an extended family household) do not. We …
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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 …
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We conducted an experiment on the nature of income sharing within 95 established couples in Germany. In a first step, the partners revealed their individual preferences by making consumption choices independently. In a second step, decisions were taken jointly over five different rounds with...
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This paper addresses the issue of household demand for services in Poland when informal sector is taken into …) to find the determinants of households' tax strategy (choice between acquiring services on regular labour market or not …. Two-step Heckman selection model is used to account for the selection into buying household services. Lee's (1983 …
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household or non-paid activities than their counterpart males. The paper further found education and time poverty to be …
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The effect of housing wealth on household consumption is puzzling as existing empirical results do not match with … housing wealth ranges between 0.04 to 0.09, indicating material impact of housing wealth on household consumption. Motivated …
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Measuring food waste at the individual household level has been nearly impossible because comprehensive, current data … on uneaten food do not exist. By using food acquisition data, this article employs a new approach to estimating household …-level food waste via a stochastic production frontier model in which food waste is identified as input inefficiency. For …
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