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Collective labour supply with children

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  • Pierre-André Chiappori

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    (Institute for Fiscal Studies and Columbia University)

  • Richard Blundell

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    (Institute for Fiscal Studies and IFS and UCL)

  • Costas Meghir

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    (Institute for Fiscal Studies and Yale University)

Abstract

We extend the collective model of household behavior to allow for the existence of public consumption. Under a separability assumption, we show that the observation of the labor supplies and the household demand for the public good allow to identify preferences and the decision process up to some additive constant.

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Length: 25 pp
Date of creation: 01 May 2002
Handle: RePEc:ifs:ifsewp:02/08
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  1. Yuk-fai Fong & Junsen Zhang, 2001. "The Identification of Unobservable Independent and Spousal Leisure," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 109(1), pages 191-202, February.
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