In this paper it is shown that the intratemporal and intertemporal preferences of each decision maker in the household … account that household behavior is the outcome of joint decisions. The empirical findings indicate that there is heterogeneity … in intertemporal preferences between wife and husband. The identification and estimation results are important for at …

Empirically analyzing household behavior usually relies on informal data preprocessing. That is, before an econometric … German micro-data on household expenditure to estimate equivalence scales as a specific example. Our results show that …

nonlinearities in household demand. Therefore, the econometric framework should not impose any strong restrictions on the functional … forms of household expenditure shares. The chosen semiparametric specification meets this requirement. It is flexible, it … yields {N} consistent parameter estimates, and is consistent with consumer theory. Estimated equivalence scales are below or …

methods for estimation, which requires only mild assumptions. Instead of point estimates, the method yields only lower and …

household model of labor supply that focuses on tax policy effects. Our distribution functions are derived under minimal … theoretical assumptions and have a simple structure. We allow distribution-free estimation, collective decisionmaking, and …

Collective models identifying resource shares are promising tools to analyse intra-household welfare and poverty …

parametric and nonparametric components. The estimation procedures are introduced for both cases, under integrability …

Equivalence scales are often used to adjust household income for differences in characteristics that affect needs. For … those implied by the ‘square root of household size’ equivalence scale. Our results have important implications when …