Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/322698 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers Series No. 06-07
Publisher: 
Utrecht University, Utrecht School of Economics, Tjalling C. Koopmans Research Institute, Utrecht
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
consumption
returns to scale
collective household models
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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