A SIMPLE APPROACH TO INVESTIGATE INTRAHOUSEHOLD ALLOCATION OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC GOODS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Donni, Olivier
• 署名单位: CY Cergy Paris Universite
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/rest.91.3.617
• 发表日期: 2009-08
• 页码: 617-628
• 关键词: labor; consumption; BEHAVIOR; income; MODEL

摘要

We adopt the collective approach to consumer behavior with egoistic agents and assume that household consumption is either private or public. We then show that (1) household demand functions have to satisfy testable constraints and (2) some elements of the decision process can be retrieved from observed behavior. These results are based on a conditional demand (m-demand) framework in which household demand functions are directly derived from the individual marginal rates of substitution. Finally, we present an empirical illustration of these theoretical results using the U. S. Consumer Expenditure Survey.