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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.

    Authors

    Richard Blundell
    Richard Blundell

    Co-director, CPP Institute

    Richard is an CPP Institute Co-director and the Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at University College London.

    Costas Meghir
    Costas Meghir

    Research Fellow Yale University

    Costas is a Research Fellow of the IFS and a Douglas A. Warner III Professor of Economics at Yale University.

    Working Paper details

    DOI
    10.1920/wp.ifs.2002.0208
    Publisher
    IFS

    Suggested citation

    R, Blundell and P, Chiappori and C, Meghir. (2002). Collective labour supply with children. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/collective-labour-supply-children (accessed: 14 November 2026).

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