A Test of Collective Rationality for Multi-Person Households

Anyck Dauphin () and Bernard Fortin ()

Cahiers de recherche from Université Laval - Département d'économique

Abstract:

This paper provides a test of efficiency of consumption decisions in households with many decision-makers. It also presents a method of determining the number of these decision-makers. Information on some distribution factors in needed to implement this approach.

Keywords: Intra-household allocation; Collective model; Polygamy; Extended family; Pareto optimality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D11 D12 D61 D7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2000
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