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Caring and Sharing : Tests between Alternative Models of Intra-Household Allocation

Browning, Martin - 2011

Several models of intra-household decision making have been suggested in the literature. We present a framework that …

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The more the poorer? : resource sharing and scale economies in large families

Calvi, Rossella; Penglase, Jacob; Tommasi, Denni; Wolf, … - 2020

The structure of a family may have important consequences for the material well-being of its members. For example, in large families, an individual must share resources with many others, but she may benefit from economies of scale in consumption. In this paper, we study individual consumption in...

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Collective household welfare and intra‐household inequality

Chavas, Jean-Paul; Menon, Martina; Pagani, Elisa; … - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 13 (2018) 2, pp. 667-696

We investigate the relationship between the individual and household indirect utility functions in the context of a collective household model. Our analysis produces new results that explain how the rule governing the distribution of resources among household members is related to the...

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Chapter 16. Intrahousehold Inequality

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Meghir, Costas - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 1369-1418). 2015

Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element of the distribution of welfare that can vary dramatically depending on overall environmental and economic factors. Thus, measures of inequality that ignore intrahousehold...

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Gender bias and the intrahousehold distribution of resources : evidence from African nuclear households in South Africa

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence; Ntuli, Miracle - 2017

This paper applies recent developments in collective model estimation to elicit the household resource sharing rule, i.e. the amount of household resources accruing to fathers, mothers, and their children among African families in South Africa. We use the 2010/11 South African Income and...

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Household Finances and Social Interaction : Bayesian Analysis of Household Panel Data

Brown, Sarah - 2014

We investigate the relationship between social interaction and household finances using data from the British Household Panel Survey. We contribute to the existing literature by exploring the relationship between a wide range of aspects of household finances and social interaction, rather than...

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Estimating the Endogenously Determined Intrahousehold Balance of Power and its Impact on Expenditure Pattern : Evidence from Nepal

Ray, Ranjan - 2016

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 analysis. Koolwal and Ray extend the collective...

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Differences across place and time in household expenditure patterns : implications for the estimation of equivalence scales

Daley, Angela; Garner, Thesia Isedora; Phipps, Shelley A.; … - 2020

Equivalence scales are often used to adjust household income for differences in characteristics that affect needs. For example, a family of two is assumed to need more income than a single person, but not double due to economies of scale in consumption. However, in comparing economic well-being...

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Household risk‐sharing channels

Asdrubali, Pierfederico; Tedeschi, Simone; Ventura, Luigi - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 11 (2020) 3, pp. 1109-1142

This paper aims to fill the gaps in the analysis of risk‐sharing channels at the microlevel, both within and across households. Using data from the Bank of Italy's Survey on Household Income and Wealth covering the financial crisis, we are able to quantify in a unified and consistent framework...

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Are Children Decision-Makers within the Household?

Dauphin, Anyck - 2008

capacity nor the power to influence the household decision process. The literature on collective models has so far incorporated … (1999); Blundell et al. (2005)]. This paper seeks to determine whether children of a certain age are decision-makers. We … focus on the decision-making process within households composed of two adults and one child of at least 16 years of age. We …

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