Collective models of the household have become the go-to framework for intra-household allocations. Available empirical collective models sort household members into types such as women or boys and effectively return estimates for groups of members where multiple members are of … Continue reading
Women and men differ in their tastes for the performing arts. Gender differences have been shown to persist after accounting for socio-economic factors. This paper uses this difference … Continue reading
This paper approaches, for the first time, the estimation of a collective household demand system from a Bayesian perspective. Using prior information on equivalence scales, as well as new restrictions implied by theory, tight credible intervals are found for resource shares, a measure of the distribution of … Continue reading
Collective models identifying resource shares are promising tools to analyze intra-household welfare and poverty. However, their empirical application has proven difficult in practice as authors contend with large standard errors and unstable estimates. This paper uses a prominent framework to show … Continue reading
Alexander Wolf 