Unpacking Household Engel Curves

Sylvie Lambert, Philippe De Vreyer and Martin Ravallion

No DT/2020/10, Working Papers from DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation)

Abstract: We model sub-household budget allocations using an unusual data set for Senegal. Aggregating to the household level reveals confounding factors in standard Engel curves, including intra-household inequality. Except for education spending, our results are consistent with the separable structures found in two-stage bargaining and collective models of the household. However, we find large discrepancies between the standard household Engel-curve estimates and consistently aggregated sub-household estimates, though in differing degrees and directions depending on the type of commodity. The main source of this discrepancy is a household effect on sub-household spending behavior, which is partially offset by differences in intra-household inequality.

Keywords: Engel curves; intrahousehold inequality; heterogeneity; Senegal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 D13 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 60 pages
Date: 2020
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