Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the … children through the "caring preferences" of their parents or has treated them as household public goods [Bourguignon (1999 …); Blundell et al. (2005)]. This paper seeks to determine whether children of a certain age are decision-makers. We focus on the …

spend significantly more money on the welfare of children and less on consumption of adult goods. In an attempt to explain … persons lacking the financial means to rely on themselves during old-age invest more in children who care for them in later … of expenditure allocated towards the welfare of children. FHH having access to alternative means of old-age security …

children's shares together with economies of scale, using the observation of adult-specific goods and an extended version of … the Rothbarth method. The application on data from Côte d'Ivoire shows that children command a reasonable fraction of … have more command over household resources. Baseline results on children's shares are robust to using alternative …