Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/242918 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IFS Working Paper No. W21/19
Publisher: 
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
Abstract: 
We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar, Lewbel and Pendakur (2013), extended to allow single-parent and other complex households, scale economies in assignable goods and complementarities between non assignable goods, and supplemented with a linear identification test. We apply the model to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject equal sharing, and find large gender gaps in resource shares, and consequently in poverty rates, in some countries.
Subjects: 
collective households
resource shares
intra-household inequality
poverty
JEL: 
D13
D63
I32
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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