subcategories such as cereals, or meat and fish, and other consumption categories such as alcohol and tobacco, medical, and … ?consumption expenditure patterns. We find some differences in consumption patterns which relate to differences in gender of …

We propose a novel structural method to empirically identify economies of scale in household consumption. We assume … collective households with consumption technologies that define the public and private nature of expenditures through Barten … scales. Our method recovers the technology by solely exploiting preference information revealed by households' consumption …

We non-parametrically test a general collective consumption model with public consumption and externalities inside the … test results but also a power analysis for different specifications of the collective consumption model. Our main findings …

consumption model. Unlike the effects of distribution factors, it is well known that the level of the sharing rule cannot be …

We use 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall … inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini coefficient slightly decreases from 0.33 in 1995 to 0 …, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality increases all the time. Besides, the inequality of basic …

This paper presents a model of consumption and household production that takes into account substitution between health … related to marriage markets that could help explain consumption, including demand for medical care and good nutrition. These …