Children's Resources in Collective Households: Identification, Estimation and an Application to Child Poverty in Malawi
Abstract
The share of household resources devoted to children is hard to identify, because consumption is measured at the household level, and goods can be shared. Using semiparametric restrictions on individual preferences within a collective model, we identify how total household resources are divided up among household members, by observing how each family member's expenditures on a single private good like clothing varies with income and family size. Using data from Malawi we show how resources devoted to wives and children vary by family size and structure, and we find that standard poverty indices understate the incidence of child poverty.Download Info
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Paper provided by Boston College Department of Economics in its series Boston College Working Papers in Economics with number 758.Length:
Date of creation: 01 Jun 2010
Date of revision: 31 Jan 2012
Publication status: forthcoming, American Economic Review
Handle: RePEc:boc:bocoec:758
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Keywords: Collective Model; Cost of Children; Bargaining Power; Identification; Sharing rule; Demand Systems; Engel Curves;Other versions of this item:
- Geoffrey R. Dunbar & Arthur Lewbel & Krishna Pendakur, 2013. "Children's Resources in Collective Households: Identification, Estimation, and an Application to Child Poverty in Malawi," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 103(1), pages 438-71, February.
- D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
- D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- C31 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions; Social Interaction Models
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:
- NEP-AFR-2010-09-25 (Africa)
- NEP-ALL-2010-09-25 (All new papers)
- NEP-DEV-2010-09-25 (Development)
- NEP-LTV-2010-09-25 (Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty)
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- Laurens CHERCHYE & Bram DE ROCK & Arthur LEWBEL & Frederic VERMEULEN, 2012.
"Sharing rule identification for general collective consumption models,"
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ces12.05, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centrum voor Economische Studiën.
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