We investigate the effects of demographics, household expenditure and female employment on the allocation of household expenditure to consumer goods. For this purpose we estimate an Almost Ideal Demand System based on Dutch micro data. We find that interactions between household expenditure and...

In recent years attempts to explain persistent Gender Inequalities in the accumulation and use of human capital have focused on the key role of household decision making and entire process of resource allocation in the making household decision about the allocation of resources have a profound...