Arbeitspapier

Uniform sharing

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 provides an opportunity to build a parsimonious model that applies naturally to households of all shapes and sizes. An intuitive assumption about how allocations change with household composition makes this possible. It also replaces previous models' identifying restrictions on individual demands across members or household structures and removes the need to classify members into types such as children or men. The resulting estimates allow a detailed and precise description of the age profiles of resource allocation using a new measure that summarizes an individual's expected consumption relative to others as a function of her characteristics. Estimates suggest that nearly a third of all variation in individual consumption is found within, rather than between households.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IFS Working Papers ; No. W19/30

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
Thema
collective model
intra-household allocation
resource share
inequality
poverty

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Wolf, Alex
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
(wo)
London
(wann)
2019

DOI
doi:10.1920/wp.ifs.2019.1930
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Wolf, Alex
  • Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)

Entstanden

  • 2019

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