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We extend the collective model of household behavior to allow for the existence of public consumption. Under a separability assumption, we show that the observation of the labor supplies and the household demand for the public good allow to identify preferences and the decision process up to some additive constant.
Authors
CPP Co-Director
Richard is Co-Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) and Senior Research Fellow at IFS.
Research Fellow Yale University
Costas is a Research Fellow of the IFS and a Professor of Economics at Yale University and a Visiting Professor at University College London.
Columbia University
Working Paper details
- DOI
- 10.1920/wp.ifs.2002.0208
- Publisher
- IFS
Suggested citation
R, Blundell and P, Chiappori and C, Meghir. (2002). Collective labour supply with children. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/collective-labour-supply-children (accessed: 28 March 2024).
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