Collective consumption: an application to the passive drinking effect

Menon, Martina; Perali, Federico; Piccoli, Luca

doi:10.1007/s11150-017-9384-y

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“…Extending Menon et al (2017a), the Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (QUAIDS) [Banks et al (1997)] is now derived for a collective model including three household members. Let the extended PIGLOG individual expenditure function be where φ( u k ) −1 is decreasing in utility.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The present work follows this approach to describe how resources are allocated among members of Albanian families, placing special emphasis on the consequences of family splitting due to parental and spousal migration. It uses a collective consumption model based on a complete demand system with price variation and individual Engel effects similar to Arias et al (2004), Menon et al (2017a), and Caiumi and Perali (2014), but extended to estimate the rule governing the distribution of resources between adults (female and male) and children.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our identification strategy is based on this individual-specific consumption information and the observation of suitable distribution factors, exogenous variables that modify the intrahousehold distribution of resources but do not affect consumption choices. Unlike most other studies, exogenous price variation is exploited by constructing (pseudo) unit values using the technique first introduced by Lewbel (1989) and applied by Atella et al (2004), Arias et al (2004), Menon et al (2017a), and Caiumi and Perali (2014). Further, our empirical strategy can be used to analyze the impact of specific factors on the share of resources for each household member.…”

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Intrahousehold Distribution in Migrant-Sending Families

2018

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Abstract:This paper studies the distribution of resources within families with migrant member abroad. We derive a complete collective demand system with individual Engel effects for male and female adults and children, and the respective share of resources. The focus is on migrant-sending families in Albania, where gender and inter-generational inequalities are relevant social issues. The results show that the female share of resources is substantially lower with respect to an equal distribution and do not benefit from father’s migration. Children have a larger share of resources and benefit from their fathers migration, when women maintain control over family decisions and when the proportion of female children is larger (at the detriment of women).

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“…Menon, Perali and Piccoli (2018) provide a different almost linear formulation of Engel curves that could be approximated similarly to our development below.…”

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OLS estimation of the intra-household distribution of expenditure

Lechêne

Pendakur

Wolf

2020

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Individuals may be poor even if their household is not poor, because the intrahousehold distribution of resources may be unequal. Dunbar, Lewbel and Pendakur (2013) develop a model wherein the resource share of each person in a collective household-defined as their share of total household expenditure-may be estimated via nonlinear estimation of Engel curves, which in practice can be difficult. In this paper, we provide a linear representation of their model, so that resource shares are revealed by estimated coefficients from OLS regressions using off-the-shelf consumer expenditure micro-data. We also provide a simple linear pre-test to check for model identification. We apply the model to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps in expenditure, and individual poverty. We find that equal sharing-the implicit assumption underlying household-level poverty calculations-is rejected. We also find evidence of large gender gaps in resource shares, and consequently in poverty rates, in a few countries.

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“…Thus, the demographically modified collective share equation ω i in (53) where ε i is an error term and ln φ * k is the log of individual income modified by a translating household technology as ln φ * k = ln φ k − i t i (d) ln p i the translating demographic functions t i (d) being specified as t i (d) = l τ il ln d l for l = 1 L. This demand system is very similar to a traditional demand system, except for the specification of the income term, which is expressed at individual levels (and not the household level). Following Chavas et al (2014), Dunbar et al (2013), and Menon et al (2017a), individual incomes are derived by partitioning household incomes with a resource share computed using the available information about the observed expenditure on assignable goods, with nonassignable goods assumed to be consumed in equal proportions by each household member. To obtain the sharing rule φ k , we then anchor the income scaling function m k (ψ) to individual total expenditures y k , incorporating the identifying information about assignable consumption as φ k = m k (ψ)y k .…”

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Collective household welfare and intra-household inequality

Chavas

Menon

Pagani

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We investigate the relationship between the individual and household indirect utility functions in the context of a collective household model. Our analysis produces new results that explain how the rule governing the distribution of resources among household members is related to the measurement of household welfare and intra-household inequality. We show that in a collective model of private consumption, income shares are equal to the product of two weights: the Pareto weight and a distribution weight reflecting income effects across individuals. For a weighted Bergsonian representation of household utility and general assumptions about individual preferences, we derive the associated household welfare functions and intra-household inequality measures belonging to a family of entropy indexes. We illustrate our findings with an empirical application that estimates a collective demand system to recover associated individual and household welfare functions along with the measures of intra-household inequality. This is the first application that estimates the Pareto weight and examines its role within a measure of income dispersion among household members.We are grateful to Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino, Stefan Hoderlein, Eleonora Matteazzi, Lars Nesheim, various seminar and conference participants, the editor, and three anonymous reviewers for helpful comments and suggestions. We also thank Nicola Tommasi for excellent research assistance. All errors and omissions are the sole responsibility of the authors.

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Collective consumption: an application to the passive drinking effect

Cited by 16 publications

References 46 publications

Intrahousehold Distribution in Migrant-Sending Families

Intrahousehold Distribution in Migrant-Sending Families

OLS estimation of the intra-household distribution of expenditure

Collective household welfare and intra-household inequality

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