This paper is published in full in European Review of Agricultural Economics Vol 28(4) (2001) pp.479-498 http://erae.oupjournals.org/content/vol28/issue4/

This study, using a survey of rural households in Zimbabwe in 1990 j91, focuses on the effects of changing household composition on patterns of expenditure and provides estimates of the 'cost of a child' as well as of family members in other age groups. In addition to age differences in the size...