A Test of Collective Rationality for Multi-Person Households

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A Test of Collective Rationality for Multi-Person Households

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Dauphin, Anyck
Fortin, Bernard

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This paper provides a test of efficiency of consumption decisions in households with many decision-makers. It also presents a method of determining the number of these decision-makers. Information on some distribution factors in needed to implement this approach.

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Paper provided by Université Laval - Département d'économique in its series Cahiers de recherche with number 0005.

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- Dauphin, Anyck & Fortin, Bernard, 2001. "A test of collective rationality for multi-person households," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 71(2), pages 211-216, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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- Dauphin, A. & Fortin, B., 2000. "A Test of Collective Rationality for Multi-Person Households," Papers 0005, Laval - Recherche en Politique Economique.

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D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

NEP-ALL-2002-04-15 (All new papers)
NEP-CDM-2002-04-15 (Collective Decision-Making)

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