household commodity demands from labor supply. As might be anticipated on the basis of these rejections, using Canadian data, we …

Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the … children through the quot;caring preferencesquot; of their parents or has treated them as household public goods [Bourguignon … capacity nor the power to influence the household decision process. The literature on collective models has so far incorporated …

We consider the life cycle choices of a household that in each period decides how much to consume and how to allocate …, spouses' wages, hours of work, and time spent with children to estimate the sensitivity of consumption and time allocation to … transitory and permanent wage shocks. These structural parameters describe the ability of household to self-insure in response to …

post-retirement motives to affect household behavior while the number and age of all children can affect the marginal …I study how children affect the marginal utility of non-durable consumption. I estimate by Maximum Likelihood a … structural economic model of optimal intertemporal allocation of consumption in the presence of children using high quality …

register data. Results suggest that children does not affect household consumption in the same magnitude previously assumed … intertemporal consumption behavior, produce inconsistent estimates of the effect of children on consumption if potentially binding … effect of children and a structural estimation strategy when households face constraints. Finally, I estimate the effect of …

We consider the life cycle choices of a household that in each period decides how much to consume and how to allocate …, spouses' wages, hours of work, and time spent with children to estimate the sensitivity of consumption and time allocation to … transitory and permanent wage shocks. These structural parameters describe the ability of household to self-insure in response to …

. Randomization in the payment dates and daily scanner data allow us to identify the effects of these transfers on household spending …

expenditure patterns of school-age children. We estimate a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System, and find that, whilst most … commodities are normal goods, sweets and toys are luxury items for children. Children of lone parents have lower budget shares for … suggesting that children mimic their parent's expenditure patterns …