Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/339489 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IFS Working Papers No. 25/17
Publisher: 
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
Abstract: 
Estimating intra-household sharing is crucial to understanding overall inequality. Standard measures of consumption inequality only take into account inequality between, and not within, households, because expenditure surveys are generally available only at the household level. I develop a new approach to estimating intra-household sharing, which is both grounded in a general collective household model, and simple to implement with widely available data. I propose using individual-level variation from time-use data to identify the way households share resources between members. For UK working couples, my methodology reveals substantial intra-household inequality, and the poverty rate is 20.59% higher for women than men.
Subjects: 
Collective model
Sharing rule
Household bargaining
Bargaining power
Consumption inequality
Time-use
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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