eprintid: 10138344
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creators_name: Lechene, V
creators_name: Pendakur, K
creators_name: Wolf, A
title: Ordinary Least Squares Estimation of the Intrahousehold Distribution of Expenditure
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divisions: UCL
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abstract: We provide a method to estimate resource shares—the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each household member—using linear (e.g., ordinary least squares) estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the 2013 nonlinear model of Dunbar, Lewbel, and Pendakur, extended to allow single-parent and other complex households, scale economies in assignable goods, and complementarities between nonassignable 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.
date: 2022-03
publisher: University of Chicago Press
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1086/717892
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
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doi: 10.1086/717892
lyricists_name: Lechene, Valerie
lyricists_id: VLECH86
actors_name: Lechene, Valerie
actors_id: VLECH86
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of Political Economy
volume: 130
number: 3
pagerange: 681-731
citation:        Lechene, V;    Pendakur, K;    Wolf, A;      (2022)    Ordinary Least Squares Estimation of the Intrahousehold Distribution of Expenditure.                   Journal of Political Economy , 130  (3)   pp. 681-731.    10.1086/717892 <https://doi.org/10.1086/717892>.       Green open access   
 
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