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We estimate a collective household model with survey data on financial satisfaction from the European Community Household Panel. Our estimates suggest that cohabitating individuals enjoy returns to scale in consumption that are towards the larger end of the range of estimates reported in the literature. They also suggest that the share of household income provided by the female partner is a significant determinant of her share of household consumption in most countries of the countries we study.
Authors
Research Fellow University of Michigan
Tom is a Research Fellow at IFS, a Research Professor for the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
Rob Alessie
Vincent Hildebrand
Working Paper details
- DOI
- 10.1920/wp.ifs.2006.0619
- Publisher
- IFS
Suggested citation
R, Alessie and T, Crossley and V, Hildebrand. (2006). Estimating a collective household model with survey data on financial satisfaction. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/estimating-collective-household-model-survey-data-financial-satisfaction (accessed: 1 July 2024).
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