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 …

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. …

household. We further propose a novel approach to model special cases of the general collective model. These special cases … include alternative restrictions on the 'sharing rule' that applies to each household, and which defines the distribution of … the household budget over the household members. A limiting case is the unitary model. Our application uses data from the …

The literature on household behavior contains hardly any empirical research on the withinhousehold distributional …

We provide a nonparametric 'revealed preference' characterization of rational household behavior in terms of the … nature of consumption externalities (positive or negative) in the intra-household allocation process is non-testable. The …, monotonicity is testable for the model that assumes all household consumption is public. …

to model household behavior as a Nash-bargaining game. Since then, very few attempts have been made to operationalize … cooperative models of household labor supply for policy analysis. In this paper, we implement a Nash-bargaining model with … the likely role of taxation on intra-household negotiation. …

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 …

We propose a collective labor supply model with household production that generalizes an original model of Blundell … goods bought at the market with individuals' time. We apply our model to new and unique data on Dutch couples with children …. Our application uses a novel estimation strategy that builds upon the familiar two-stage allocation representation of the …