This paper introduces the 'separate spheres' bargaining model, a new model of distribution within marriage. It differs from divorce threat bargaining models in that the threat point is not divorce but a noncooperative equilibrium within marriage; this noncooperative equilibrium reflects...

The authors introduce a procedure for transforming any homogeneous technology into a nonhomothetic one. This procedure is particularly useful when applied to a nonseparable two-stage constant elasticity of substitution technology since the number of additional parameters to be estimated is small...

Pooling consumption data from different countries for demand system estimation is attractive because it increases both sample size and therange of v ariation of relative prices and income. The major objection to pooling is that d ifferent countries may have different demand system parameters....