Household Panel. Our estimates suggest that cohabitating individuals enjoy returns to scale in consumption that are towards the … provided by the female partner is a significant determinant of her share of household consumption in most countries of the …

general panel date on total consumption from the intertemporal budget constraint. The distribution of consumption levels is … shown to closely match that estimated using the UK's household budget survey. Consumption transitions over time are then …

general panel date on total consumption from the intertemporal budget constraint. The distribution of consumption levels is … shown to closely match that estimated using the UK's household budget survey. Consumption transitions over time are then …

Household Panel. Our estimates suggest that cohabitating individuals enjoy returns to scale in consumption that are towards the … provided by the female partner is a significant determinant of her share of household consumption in most countries of the … countries we study. – consumption ; returns to scale ; collective household models …

) support the idea that returns to scale in home production are an important source of returns to scale in consumption; and (3 …), mean that across household sizes, household market expenditures on food are not proportional to food consumption quantities …

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 … scales underestimates the level of cross sectional consumption inequality by 30%, as large differences in the earnings of …