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. …

-purchase time are determined simultaneously. We use this model to explore the relationship between a household's cereal purchases … Program for Women, Infants, and Children are found to purchase a larger quantity of cereals when making a purchase and also … are heavily censored at zero. The traditional approach for working with such data in demand estimation usually involves …

of their practical importance for the measurement of inequality and poverty, a large number of methods for the estimation … this paper, we employ German household expenditure data to estimate exact equivalence scales using several parametric … inequality and poverty. We conclude that differences in estimation methods for equivalence scales might be less important than …

primarily changes income and expenditure patterns, widowhood fundamentally changes the structure of the household. Beside high … consumption are lost. This paper applies the Lewbel and Pendakur (2008) collective household model to expenditure data on elderly … households in Switzerland. The findings suggest that between 40 and 50% of household resources are assigned to wives and both …

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. …

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. …

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 …

Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the … children through the "caring preferences" of their parents or has treated them as household public goods [Bourguignon (1999 … capacity nor the power to influence the household decision process. The literature on collective models has so far incorporated …

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 …

. 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 …