Degrees of Cooperation in Household Consumption Models: A revealed Preference Analysis

Laurens Cherchye, Thomas Demuynck and Bram De Rock

No 2009-024, Working Papers ECARES from ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles

Abstract: We develop a revealed preference approach to analyze non-unitary consumption models with intrahousehold allocations deviating from the cooper- ative (or Pareto e¢ cient) solution. At a theoretical level, we establish revealed preference conditions of household consumption models with varying degrees of cooperation. Using these conditions, we show independence (or non-nestedness) of the different (cooperative-noncooperative) models. At a practical level, we show that our characterization implies testable conditions for a whole spectrum of cooperative-noncooperative models that can be verified by means of mixed integer programming (MIP) methods. This MIP formulation is particularly attractive in view of empirical analysis. An application to data drawn from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) demonstrates the empirical relevance of consumption models that account for limited intrahousehold cooperation.

Keywords: household consumption; intrahousehold cooperation; revealed preferences; Generalized Axiom of Revealed Preference (GARP); mixed integer programming (MIP) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 D11 D12 D13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 p.
Date: 2009-11
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