Labour supply, household production and intra-family welfare distribution
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INTRA-HOUSEHOLD WELFARE By
In this paper we develop an approach to measuring inequality and poverty that recognizes the fact that individuals within households may have both di¤erent preferences and di¤erential access to resources. We argue that a measure based on estimates of the sharing rule is inadequate as an approach that seeks to understand how welfare is distributed in the population because it ignores public good...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Economics
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0047-2727
DOI: 10.1016/0047-2727(95)01524-8