Unitary models, assuming a single objective function and unified budget constraint, are traditionally used to model household behavior. Most empirical tests of unitary models rely on endogenous regressors. This paper uses an exogenous change in the intrahousehold distribution of income, provided...

Demographisch gegliederte Nachfragesysteme modellieren Unterschiede im Verbrauch verschiedener Verbrauchergruppen bzw. Haushaltstypen. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird untersucht, welche Nachfragesysteme einerseits die Restriktionen der neoklassischen Nachfragetheorie erfüllen und andererseits...

Whether couples pool their resources and behave like a unit or spend their income individually is crucial for social and tax policy. In this paper, I provide a test of the income pooling hypothesis using administrative cross-sectional survey data on expenditures and individual incomes of couple...

Whether couples pool their resources and behave like a unit or spend their income individually is crucial for social and tax policy. In this paper, I provide a test of the income pooling hypothesis using administrative cross-sectional survey data on expenditures and individual incomes of couple...