We analyse expenditure patterns for rural China, focusing on differences between families with boys and girls. The sample includes more than 5000 nuclear families from 19 Chinese provinces. Following the existing literature, we estimate Engel curves for food and for alcohol, a typical adult...

We investigate labor supply of married women in Mexico City, using a static neoclassical structural model. By choosing her labor supply and corresponding income, each woman is assumed to maximize a direct translog utility function with family composition variables as taste shifters. We account...