This article studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on
household expenditure on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of North …

We provide a method to estimate resource shares—the fraction of total household
expenditure allocated to each household member—using linear (eg, ordinary least squares) …

We study noncooperative household models with two agents and several voluntarily
contributed public goods, deriving the counterpart to the Slutsky matrix and demonstrating the …

Using the Progresa data from Mexico, we investigate intrahousehold decision making using
a variety of outcomes. We exploit both the experimental nature and the (short) panel …

This paper presents an analysis of the welfare consequences of recent increases in food
prices in Mexico using micro-level data. We estimate a QUAIDS model of demand for food, …

In this note we identify and clarify a confusion that has arisen in the literature about the exact
relationship between unitary and collective models and what enters the Pareto weight and …

There is evidence from several sources that one cannot treat many-person households as a
single decision maker. If this is the case, then factors such as the relative incomes of the …

The goal of this paper is twofold. First, we reproduce upon French data previous tests of the
so-called" income pooling" hypothesis, a conse quence of traditional models of household …

La modélisation de l'effet des enfants sur les comportements économiques a donné lieu à
une littérature abondante et controversée. Ceci provient d'une part de ce que la mesure du …

We estimate and test the restrictions of a collective model of household consumption, using
z-conditional demands, in the context of a large conditional cash transfer program in rural …