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How Men Avoid the Ballet – Household Decisions on Arts Consumption

Posted on September 10, 2018 by Alex Wolf

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                            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 →

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Resource Allocation in Couples – A Collective Model with Prior Information

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Alex Wolf

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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 →

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Estimating household resource shares: A shrinkage approach

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Alex Wolf

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      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 →

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