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The collective approach to household behavior relaxes the restrictive features of the unitary model by specifying … household welfare as a weighted combination of the individuals' utilities. But the weights are assumed fixed or exogenous to the … determined and simultaneously estimated with the household outcomes. The authors present Nepalese evidence that suggests that a …
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on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We therefore model consumption and labor … preferences. -- Consumption ; labor supply ; intra-household allocation ; non-cooperative model ; public goods …
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Many budget surveys present the interesting features that for a wide range of goods they contain quantity information along with expenditure information, and that the geographical location of households is fairly precise. We take advantage of these features to develop a method for estimation of...
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.e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is …
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register data. Results suggest that children does not affect household consumption in the same magnitude previously assumed …
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This paper investigates the importance of status in household consumption and financial decisions using household data … evidence that a household's income rank — its position in the income distribution relative to its close neighbors — is … household's portfolio. More aggregate county-level evidence based on a dataset of every new car sold in each county in the …
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spending from 2009 through 2012 that also allow us to control for household heterogeneity. We find that durables spending …
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find that through bulk purchasing the average household could spend 8.9% less on observed quantities (or consume 15.6% more …
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.e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is …
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.e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is …
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