What is the Income Cost of a Child? Exact Equivalence Scales for Canadian Two-Parent Families
What is the Income Cost of a Child? Exact Equivalence Scales for Canadian Two-Parent Families
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孩子的收入成本是多少？
DOI：
10.1162/003465398557267
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发表时间：
1998
影响因子：
8
通讯作者：
S. Phipps
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作者：
S. Phipps
这份说明提出了这样一个问题：需要多少收入才能维持所有出生后家庭成员在出生前的生活水平？加拿大双亲家庭的等价尺度是使用完全需求系统方法并施加等价尺度精确性/独立于基数的条件来估计的（Blackorby和唐纳森（1993），Lewbel（1989））。这种方法有几个优点：（1）它在形式上以经济理论为基础。(2)儿童所需的收入可以在不忽视儿童本身福祉的情况下进行估算。(3)所获得的估计数相对于文献中现有的其他估计数似乎是合理的。
This note asks: How much income does it take to preserve the prechild standard of living for all members of the postchild household? Equivalence scales for Canadian two-parent families are estimated using a complete demand system approach and imposing the condition of equiva-lence scale exactness/independent of a base (Blackorby and Donaldson (1993), Lewbel (1989)). This approach has several advantages: (1) It is formally grounded in economic theory. (2) The income required for children can be estimated without ignoring the well-being of the children themselves. (3) The estimates obtained appear reasonable relative to others currently available in the literature.