The Measurement of Child Costs: Evidence from Ireland

Olivier Bargain, Olivier Donni and Monnet Benoit Patrick Gbakou ()
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Monnet Benoit Patrick Gbakou: Félix Houphouët-Boigny University

No 4672, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We apply an extension of the Rothbarth approach to estimate the share of household resources accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children) in Ireland. The method also allows us to identify the economies of scale in the household and indifference scales in Lewbel (2003)’s sense. A practical aspect of the present approach is that it does not require price variation. The identification of the children's share requires the observation of adult-specific goods as in the traditional Rothbarth method. We compare our findings to previous results for Ireland.

Keywords: indifference scales; consumer demand; collective model; sharing rule; cost of children; equivalence scales (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C30 D11 D12 I31 J12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2009-12
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Published - published in: Economic and Social Review, 2010, 41 (1), 1-20

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