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Estimation of Collective Household Models With Engel Curves

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  • Arthur Lewbel

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    (Boston College)

  • Krishna Pendakur

    (Simon Fraser University)

Abstract

The structural consumer demand methods used to estimate the parameters of collective household models are typically either very restrictive and easy to implement or very general and difficult to estimate. In this paper, we provide a middle ground. We adapt the very general framework of Browning, Chiappori and Lewbel (2007) by adding a simple restriction that recasts the empirical model from a highly nonlinear demand system with price variation to a slightly nonlinear Engel curve system. Our restriction has an interpretation in terms of the behaviour of household scale economies and is testable. Our method identifies the levels of (not just changes in) household resource shares, and a variant of equivalence scales called indifference scales. We apply our methodology to Canadian expenditure data.

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Paper provided by Boston College Department of Economics in its series Boston College Working Papers in Economics with number 694.

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Length: 17 pages
Date of creation: 01 May 2008
Handle: RePEc:boc:bocoec:694
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Keywords: Consumer Demand; Collective Model; Sharing rule; Household Bargaining; Bargaining Power; Indifference Scales; Adult Equivalence Scales; Demand Systems; Barten Scales; Nonparametric Identification.;

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  • D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
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  • C30 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - General
  • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
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