Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71373 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP10/02
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
We apply an extension of the Rothbarth approach to estimate the share of household resources accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children) in Ireland. The method also allows us to identify the economies of scale in the household and indifference scales in Lewbel (2003)'s sense. A practical aspect of the present approach is that it does not require price variation. The identification of the children's share requires the observation of adult-specific goods as in the traditional Rothbarth method. We compare our findings to previous results for Ireland.
Subjects: 
Consumer demand
Collective model
Sharing rule
Cost of children
Equivalence scales
Indifference scales
JEL: 
D11
D12
C30
D36
I31
J12
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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