Alessie, Rob; Crossley, Thomas F.; Hildebrand, Vincent - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2006
Household Panel. Our estimates suggest that cohabitating individuals enjoy returns to scale in consumption that are towards the … larger end of the range of estimates reported in the literature. They also suggest that the share of household income … provided by the female partner is a significant determinant of her share of household consumption in most of the countries we …