The cost of children: May the collective approach to household behavior help?
The cost of children: May the collective approach to household behavior help?
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孩子的成本：家庭行为的集体方法有帮助吗？
DOI：
10.1007/s001480050111
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发表时间：
1999
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通讯作者：
FrancËois Bourguignon
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作者：
FrancËois Bourguignon
研究家庭消费行为的集体方法试图从影响家庭成员总体议价地位的变量中推断出家庭成员之间消费品和任务分配的信息。本文研究了以往工作的延伸，以儿童可能被视为一个家庭的两个成年成员的公共消费品。提出的主要问题是，是否有可能从家庭的总消费行为和父母的相对收入中检索到关于他们与子女之间商品分配的信息。这种估算“儿童成本”的替代方法与基于家庭消费行为的“单一”表示和人口可分离性假设的传统方法形成对比。
The collective approach to household consumption behavior tries to infer from variables supposed to affect the general bargaining position of household members information on the allocation of consumptions goods and tasks among them. This paper investigates the extension of previous work to the case where children may be considered as a public consumption good by the two adult members of a household. The main question being asked is whether it is possible to retrieve from the aggregate consumption behaviour of the household and the relative earnings of the parents information on the allocation of goods between them and children. This alternative approach to the estimation of the ‘cost of children’ is contrasted with the conventional approach based on a ‘unitary’ representation of and demographic separability assumptions on household consumption behaviour.