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Estimating intra-household sharing is crucial to understanding overall inequality. However, expenditure data is almost always at the household level. A growing literature structurally estimates sharing from individual-level demand data for a single private good, the ‘assignable good’. I develop a new approach which is both grounded in a general collective household model, and simple to implement with widely available data. I also propose a novel assignable good: private leisure. I apply my methodology to UK working couples. My estimated sharing rule is consistent with bargaining theory, and I find that the poverty rate is 20.59% higher for women than men.
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PhD Scholar University College London
Francesca is an IFS PhD Scholar. She is currently an ESRC scholar at UCL, where she is undertaking her doctoral research in applied microeconomics.
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- DOI
- 10.1920/wp.ifs.2024.3124
- Publisher
- Institute for Fiscal Studies
Suggested citation
Arduini, F. (2024). Estimating intra-household sharing from time-use data. 24/31. London: Institute for Fiscal Studies. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/estimating-intra-household-sharing-time-use-data-0 (accessed: 5 November 2024).
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