In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to … describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household … individual utility functions and the household power weight distribution, which is parameterized per household. The model is …

Household scale economies are plausibly attributed to shared household public goods that make larger households better …, the per capita demand for food decreases with household size and that it does so most in the poorest countries, where …