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. …

. Sharing between parents and children is well predicted on average while the model detects key aspects like the extent of pro ….e. ignoring within-household inequality). This assessment of existing approaches to measure individual inequality and poverty is …

have more command over household resources. Baseline results on children's shares are robust to using alternative … 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, using the observation of adult-specific goods and an extended version of …

This paper uses variation created by parental deaths in the amount of time children spend with each parent to examine … children who lost one parent during childhood, we find a series of striking patterns which show that the relationship is … largely causal. Relative to children who did not lose a parent, the education of the deceased parent is less important in …

We propose a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children … application on the French Household Budget Survey. -- Consumer demand ; collective model ; Rothbarth method ; cost of children …). Following the principle of the Rothbarth approach, the identification of the children's share requires the observation of at …

We apply an extension of the Rothbarth approach to estimate the share of household resources accruing to children (i ….e., the cost of children) in Ireland. The method also allows us to identify the economies of scale in the household and … variation. The identification of the children's share requires the observation of adult-specific goods as in the traditional …

Engel curves to investigate household expenditure patterns while controlling for household characteristics and find that FHH … spend significantly more money on the welfare of children and less on consumption of adult goods. In an attempt to explain … persons lacking the financial means to rely on themselves during old-age invest more in children who care for them in later …

on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We therefore model consumption and labor … expenses on children's goods that act as a public good in the spouses' preferences. We find that for couples with two or three … children the standard unitary model is strongly rejected in favor of our non-cooperative model. Moreover, it turns out that for …