Search Results - subject:"household Models."

Are Children Decision-Makers Within the Household?

Dauphin, Anyck; Lahga, Abdel-Rahmen El; Fortin, Bernard; … - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008

Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the capacity nor the power to influence the household decision process. The literature on collective models has so far incorporated children through the "caring preferences" of their...

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"Is women's non-market time more valuable than men's?"

Eriksson, Rickard - Institutet för Social Forskning (SOFI), Stockholms … - 2008

participate in labor market work. JEL Classification: D12, H31, J12, J22 Keywords: Household models, Labor supply, Stated …’s labor supply, to test predictions of household models. Most of the economic models of the household belong to one of the … methods have been used to avoid misspecification problems when testing household models. The first and most obvious one is to …

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A Public Good Version of the Collective Household Model: An Empirical Approach with an Application to British Household Data

van Klaveren, Chris; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Maassen … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

unitary Slutsky symmetry condition. JEL Classification: D12, D13, J22 Keywords: collective household models … household models are non-parametrically identi able. One of the speci c identi able cases they refer to is a model where at …

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A Public Good Version of the Collective Household Model

Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Brink, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for twoearner

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A public good version of the collective household model : an empirical approach with an application to British household data

Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Maassen … - 2008

In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for twoearnerhouseholds. The novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collectivehousehold model, where the internally produced goods and the externally purchased goodsare assumed to be public....

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Computational Inefficiency Of Nonparametric Tests For Consistency Of Data With Household Consumption

Deb, Rahul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Recently Cherchye et al. (2007a) provided a nonparametric characterization of a general collective model for household consumption which includes externalities and public consumption. This characterization involved different necessary and sufficient conditions. We identify a special case of the...

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Empirical estimation results of a collective household time allocation model

van Klaveren, Chris; van Praag, Bernard; Maassen van … - 2006

In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household utility function which is a weighted sum of the utility...

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A collective household model of time allocation: a comparison of native Dutch and immigrant households in the Netherlands

van Klaveren, Chris; van Praag, Bernard; Maassen van … - 2006

Although the number of immigrant households in the Netherlands is substantial, the labor supply choices of this group are usually neglected in empirical studies because these households are usually under-sampled. We use a stratified sample of Turkish, Surinamese/Antillean and Dutch households...

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A Collective Household Model of Time Allocation - A Comparison of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in The Netherlands

van Klaveren, Chris; van Praag, Bernard M.S.; van den … - 2006

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The Economics of Obesity-Related Mortality among High Income Countries

Huffman, Wallace E.; Huffman, Sonya Kostova; Tegene, … - 2006

The high and rapidly rising adult obesity rates in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand are associated with major health risks, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, stroke, and some forms of cancer; large health care costs; and premature deaths annually. For...

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