The measurement of child costs: evidence from Ireland

Olivier Bargain, Monnet Gbakou and Olivier Donni

No 201002, Working Papers from School of Economics, University College Dublin

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 identi cation of the children's share requires the observation of adult-speci c goods as in the traditional Rothbarth method. We compare our fi ndings to previous results for Ireland.

Keywords: Consumer demand; Collective model; Sharing rule; Cost of children; Equivalence scales; Indifference scales; Home economics--Accounting; Child rearing--Economic aspects--Ireland; Consumption (Economics) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C30 D11 D12 I31 J12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-01
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Journal Article: The Measurement of Child Costs: Evidence from Ireland (2010)
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