We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each … household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar …

Most studies that explore collective models of intra-household decision-making use economic outcomes such as human … households. In the current study, a direct measure of financial decision-making power within the household is used to directly … Study. The influence of gender differences in intra-household decision-making on resource allocations to per capita …

We present a methodology for the structural empirical analysis of household consumption and time use behaviour under … that allow us to rationalise both the observed matches and the within-household allocations of time and money. …

The decision-making processes and outcomes of male and female household heads differ due to gender-based differences in … preferences. In this paper, we assess the impact of this heterogeneity on household healthcare consumption in Thailand. Past … studies modeling healthcare expenditures using household survey data used a gender dummy variable in regression models to …

To describe and understand the economic inequality in a given so- ciety, it is necessary to understand intra-household … paper gives an overview of within-household distributions in different settings, both between the adults and also between … often, but not always, disfavor women and children. The paper also discusses the importance of intra-household allocations …

measures of consumption and income from household surveys. Using a new compilation of more than 2,000 household surveys matched … established. Means of household consumption estimated from surveys are, on average, 20 percentlower than corresponding means from …