methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered … remote work during the pandemic. We then propose methods to impute transportation cost equivalents for household expenditure …

This paper compares the survey results on savings deposits and estimates on total financial assets from the Household … Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) in Austria with administrative records from the national accounts for the household …

Empirically analyzing household behavior usually relies on informal data preprocessing. That is, before an econometric … German micro-data on household expenditure to estimate equivalence scales as a specific example. Our results show that …

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 …

We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each … household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar …

Standard household economics assumes that couples pool their incomes and share the sum equally, which is a necessary … advancement of this paper is the use of panel data, which enables me to account for unobserved heterogeneity at the household …

this paper, we employ German household expenditure data to estimate exact equivalence scales using several parametric …