Collective household consumption behavior : revealed preference analysis

Author(s)

    • Cherchye, Laurens
    • Rock, Bram De
    • Vermeulen, Frederic

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Collective household consumption behavior : revealed preference analysis

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Frederic Vermeulen

(Foundations and trends in econometrics, 4:4)

Now, c2012

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"This book is originally published as Foundations and trends [R] in econometrics, volume 4 issues 4, ISSN: 1551-3076"--Back cover

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Description and Table of Contents

Description

Collective Household Consumption Behavior presents a nonparametric `revealed preference' methodology for analyzing collective consumption behavior in practical applications, while possibly accounting for externalities, public consumption and the use of assignable quantity information. It considers two types of collective models: The general collective model considers general preferences of the individual household members, which allow for externalities and public consumption within the household. The special collective models that do not allow for consumption externalities. After the introduction, section 2 sets the stage by introducing the revealed preference characterizations of the unitary model. Section 3 presents a collective model that allows for general individual preferences and discusses its revealed preference characterization. Sections 4 and 5 show how to bring this theoretical characterization to observational data. More specifically, Section 4 introduces the mixed integer programming characterizations for special collective models that impose restrictions on the household members' preferences. Section 5 does the same for the general collective model. Throughout Section 2 to Section 5, the authors illustrate the most relevant concepts by means of numerical examples. In Section 6 we subsequently illustrate our main results for data drawn from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction. 2. Setting the stage: a revealed preference characterization of the unitary model. 3. Rational collective consumption behavior. 4. Testing and recovery results for the special collective models. 5. Testing and recovery results for the general collective model. 6. Empirical applications. 7. Conclusions. Appendix.

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  • NCID
    BB11809999
  • ISBN
    • 9781601985361
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Boston
  • Pages/Volumes
    ix, 90 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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