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The idiosyncratic impact of an aggregate shock: The distributional consequences of COVID-19

Benzeval, Michaela; Burton, Jonathan; Crossley, Thomas; … - 2020

Using new data from the Understanding Society: COVID 19 survey collected in April 2020, we show how the aggregate shock caused by the pandemic affects individuals across the distribution. The survey collects data from existing members of the Under-standing Society panel survey who have been...

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Estimating a collective household model with survey data on financial satisfaction

Alessie, Rob; Crossley, Thomas F.; Hildebrand, Vincent - 2006

We estimate a collective household model with survey data on financial satisfaction from the European Community Household Panel. Our estimates suggest that cohabitating individuals enjoy returns to scale in consumption that are towards the larger end of the range of estimates reported in the...

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Estimating a collective household model with survey data on financial satisfaction

Alessie, Rob; Crossley, Thomas; Hildebrand, Vincent - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2006

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Exploring the returns to scale in food preparation: Baking penny buns at home

Crossley, Thomas F.; Lu, Yuqian - 2005

We show that as household size increases, households substitute away from prepared foods and towards ingredients. They also devote more time to food preparation. These observations (1) are consistent with a simple model with home production, returns to scale in the time input to food...

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Consumption inequality and intra-household allocations

Lise, Jeremy; Seitz, Shannon - 2007

The consumption literature uses adult equivalence scales to measure individual level inequality. This practice imposes … the assumption that there is no within household inequality. In this paper, we show that ignoring consumption inequality … within households produces misleading estimates of inequality along two dimensions. First, the use of adult equivalence …

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Consume now or later? Time inconsistency, collective choice and revealed preference

Adams, Abi; Cherchye, Laurens; De Rock, Bram; Verriest, … - 2014

In this paper, we develop a revealed preference methodology that allows us to explore whether time inconsistencies in household choice are the product of individual preference nonstationarities or the result of individual heterogeneity and renegotiation within the collective unit. An empirical...

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Household sharing and commitment: Evidence from panel data on individual expenditures and time use

Lise, Jeremy; Yamada, Ken - 2014

In this paper, we analyze the nature of intra-household allocations and commitment using unique panel data on individual-specific within-household consumption expenditures and on time used for leisure, market production and home production. Specifically we estimate a dynamic collective model of...

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The effect of gender-targeted conditional cash transfers on household expenditures: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Armand, Alex; Attanasio, Orazio; Carneiro, Pedro M.; … - 2016

This paper studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on the structure of household expenditures on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of Macedonia, offering cash transfers to poor households, conditional on having their children...

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Exploring the returns to scale in food preparation (baking penny buns at home)

Crossley, Thomas; Lu, Yuqian - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2005

<p>We show that as household size increases, households substitute away from prepared foods and towards ingredients. They also devote more time to food preparation. These observations (1) are consistent with a simple model with home production, returns to scale in the time input to food...</p>

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005727604

Uniform sharing

Wolf, Alex - 2019

Collective models have become the go-to framework for intra-household allocations. Available empirical collective models are built for fixed sets of household members and accommodate diversity in household structures with difficulty. Individual-level data on food consumption from Bangladesh...

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