Poverty measures in developing countries often ignore the distribution of resources within families and the gains from joint consumption. In this paper, we extend the collective model of household consumption to recover mother's, father's and children's shares together with economies of scale,...

Undoubtedly, the international financial market is subject to "ecological" pressure in the possitive sense of the word. It seams that at present a process of adaptation of financial institutions to the functioning in the society which respect the requirements of natural environment protection...

Searching for the "State of the Art" for Food Pantries is a literature review I began in August of 2011, and finished analyzing in early April 2012. It looks at the results of a search through several databases of journals, magazines, newspapers, and other periodicals from 1931 through July...

Este documento presenta algunos fundamentos teóricos que subyacen en el análisis de bienestar que puede establecerse en aras de cuantificar el impacto sobre el consumidor cuando un agente infringe los derechos del comprador, lo cual pueden traducirse en un incremento en los precios. El...

We propose a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children). Following the principle of the Rothbarth approach, the identification of the children's share requires the observation of at least one adult-specific good. However, our...

Neoclassical economic theory rules out systematic errors in consumption choice. According to the basic view, individuals know what they choose. They are able to predict how much utility an activity or a good produces for them now and in the future and they can maximize their utility. This...

Recent advances in the collective model literature suggest ways to estimate the complete allocation of resources within households, using assignable goods and assuming adult preference similarity across demographic groups (or across spouses). While it makes welfare analysis at the individual...

Escalation is a key characteristic of many consumption behaviors that has not received the theoretical attention it deserves. The aim of this paper is to propose both a definition and a theoretical treatment of escalation in consumption. We shall define escalation as the attempt to obtain...

In economic models of behavior consumers are assumed to value the goods and services they purchase based on stable preferences over externally identifiable attributes such as quality. These models predict that consumers will respond to changes in price in a way that is independent of the source...

Spanish Abstract: Los deshidratadores solares son dispositivos con los cuales se extrae agua del producto por medio del flujo del aire caliente, de esta forma el líquido que está en la superficie del producto se evapora y se traspasa al aire circundante, transfiriendo el calor al producto. La...