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References for Measuring the cost of children
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Further reading
- Lewbel, A. "Consumer demand systems and household equivalence scales" In: Pesaran, M. H., Schmidt, P. (eds). Handbook of Applied Econometrics, Vol. II. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1997.
- Nelson, J. A. "Household equivalence scales: Theory versus policy?" Journal of Labor Economics 11:3 (1993): 471–493.
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Key references
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Browning, M. "Children and
household economic behavior" Journal of
Economic Literature 30:3 (1992): 1434–1475. Key reference: [1]
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Banks, J., Brewer, M. "Understanding the
generosity of government support to households with
children" In: Bradshaw, J. (ed). Children and
Social Security. Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2003. Key reference: [2]
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Seneca, J. J., Taussig, M. K. "Family equivalence
scales and personal income tax exemptions for children" The Review of
Economics and Statistics 53:3 (1971): 253–262. Key reference: [3]
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Nicholson, J. L. "Appraisal of
different methods of estimating equivalence scales and their
results" Review of Income
and Wealth 22:1 (1976): 1–11. Key reference: [4]
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Deaton, A. S. The Analysis of
Household Surveys: A Microeconometric Approach to Development
Policy. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1997. Key reference: [5]
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Blackorby, C., Donaldson, C. "Adult-equivalence
scales and the economic implementation of interpersonal
comparisons of well-being" Social Choice and
Welfare 10:4 (1993): 335–361. Key reference: [6]
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Lewbel, A. "Household
equivalence scales and welfare comparisons" Journal of Public
Economics 39:3 (1989): 377–391. Key reference: [7]
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Jorgenson, D. W., Slesnick, D. T. "Aggregate consumer
behavior and household equivalence scales" Journal of
Business & Economic Statistics 5:2 (1987): 219–232. Key reference: [8]
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Nelson, J. A. "Independent of a
base equivalence scales estimation using United States
micro-level data" Annales d’économie
et de statistique: Progrès récents en théorie du
consommateur/Recent Advances in Economic Theory 29 (1993): 43–63. Key reference: [9]
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Gronau, R. "The intrafamily
allocation of goods—How to separate the adult from the
child" Journal of Labor
Economics 9:3 (1991): 207–235. Key reference: [10]
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Lazear, E. P., Michael, R. T. "Estimating the
personal distribution of income with adjustment for
within-family variation" Journal of Labor
Economics 4:3 (1986): S216–S239. Key reference: [11]
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Lundberg, S. J., Pollak, R. A., Wales, T. J. "Do husbands and
wives pool their resources? Evidence from the United Kingdom
child benefit" Journal of Human
Resources 32:3 (1997): 463–480. Key reference: [12]
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Bargain, O., Donni, O. "Expenditure on
children: A Rothbarth-type method consistent with scale
economies and parents’ bargaining" European Economic
Review 56:4 (2012): 792–813. Key reference: [13]
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Browning, M. "Children and
household economic behavior" Journal of
Economic Literature 30:3 (1992): 1434–1475.
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Additional References
- Barten, A. P. "Family composition, prices and expenditure patterns" In: Hart, P., Mills, G., Whitaker, J. K. (eds). Econometric Analysis for National Economic Planning: Proceedings of the 16th Symposium of the Colston Society. London, UK: Butterworth, 1964.
- Becker, G. S. A Treatise on the Family. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.
- Blundell, R. W., Lewbel, A. "The information content of equivalence scales" Journal of Econometrics 50:1-2 (1991): 49–68.
- Bourguignon, F. "The cost of children: may the collective approach to household behaviour help?" Journal of Population Economics 12:4 (1999): 503–521.
- Browning, M., Chiappori, P. A., Weiss, Y. Economics of the Family. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Browning, M., Chiappori, P. A., Lewbel, A. "Estimating consumption economies of scale, adult equivalence scales, and household bargaining power" Review of Economic Studies 80:4 (2013): 1267–1303.
- Deaton, A. S., Muellbauer, J. "On measuring child costs: With applications to poor countries" Journal of Political Economy 94:4 (1986): 720–744.
- Deaton, A. S., Ruiz-Castillo, J., Thomas, D. "The influence of household composition on household expenditure patterns: theory and Spanish evidence" Journal of Political Economy 97:1 (1989): 179–200.
- Donaldson, D., Pendakur, K. "Equivalent-expenditure functions and expenditure-dependent equivalence scales" Journal of Public Economics 88:1-2 (2004): 175–208.
- Dublin, L. I., Lotka, A. J. The Money Cost of a Man. New York, NY: Ronald Press, 1946.
- Dunbar, G., Lewbel, A., Pendakur, K. "Children's resources in collective households: identification, estimation, and an application to child poverty in Malawi" American Economic Review 103:1 (2013): 438–471.
- Engel, E. "Die Productions- und Consumtionsverhältnisse des Königreichs Sachsen" Zeitschrift des Statistischen Bureaus des Königlich Sächsischen Ministerium des Inneren 8:9 (1857): 28–29.
- Gorman, T. J. "Tricks with utility functions" In: Artis, M. J., Norbay, A. R. (eds). Essays in Economic Analysis. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
- Lazear, E. P., Michael, R. T. "Family size and the distribution of real per capita income" The American Economic Review 70:1 (1980): 91–107.
- Lazear, E. P., Michael, R. T. Allocation of Income within the Household. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
- Lewbel, A. "Calculating compensation in cases of wrongful death" Journal of Econometrics 113:1 (2003): 115–128.
- Muellbauer, J. "Testing the Barten model of household composition effects and the cost of children" Economic Journal 87:347 (1977): 460–487.
- Muellbauer, J. "The estimation of the Prais-Houthakker model of equivalence scales" Econometrica 48:1 (1980): 153–176.
- Pendakur, K. "Semiparametric estimates and tests of base-independent equivalence scales" Journal of Econometrics 88:1 (1999): 1–40.
- Prais, S. J., Houthakker, H. S. The Analysis of Family Budgets. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1955.
- Rothbarth, E. "Note on a method of determining equivalent income for families of different composition" In: Madge, C. (ed). War Time Pattern of Saving and Spending. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1943.
- Tsakloglou, P. "Estimation and comparison of two simple models of equivalence scales for the cost of children" The Economic Journal 101:405 (1991): 343–357.