Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324413 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IFS Working Papers No. 24/31
Publisher: 
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Collective model
Sharing rule
Household bargaining
Bargaining power
Consumption inequality
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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