Household Semi-Public Goods and the Estimation of Consumer Equivalence Scales: Some First Steps

Bruce Bradbury

Microeconomics from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Models of household consumption used to estimate the relative needs of people living in different family types need to take account of economies of household size, price-like substitution effects and the allocation of consumption among the individuals of the household. No existing estimation method tackles all three of these issues in a simultaneous and transparent fashion. Partly because of this, consumption-based estimates of consumer equivalence scales have had little direct application in social and economic policies. This paper combines a household production model introduced by Lau with a Samuelson-type household welfare function to develop a consumption model which is both general and amenable to the incorporation (and testing) of a range of additional identifying information. The latter can include ‘expert judgements’ of the technology of household production (the scale economies) of different goods. A simplified version of this model is used to estimate some preliminary equivalence scales and intra-household allocations for aged couples and singles. (JEL D11)

Keywords: equivalence scales; consumer demand; semi-public; conjestible intra-household; household (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D1 D2 D3 D4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47 pages
Date: 1995-08-01
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