Collective Household Models: Principles and Main Results

By Frederic Vermeulen. 2003

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In the traditional approach to consumer behaviour it is assumed that households behave as if they were single decision-making units. This approach has methodological, empirical and welfare economic deficiencies. A valuable alternative to the traditional model is the collective approach to household behaviour. The collective approach explicitly takes account of the fact that multi-person households consist of several members which may have different preferences. Among these household members, an intrahousehold bargaining process is assumed to take place. In addition to providing an introduction to the collective approach, this survey intends to show how different collective household models, each with their own aims and assumptions, are connected.

Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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Estimation of collective household models with Engel curves (2008, positive): “The model we actually estimate is then obtained by substituting equation (16) into (11) and (17) into (12) for singles, and substituting equations (19), (20), (21), and (22) into equation (18) for couples.”
Sharing of Resources Within the Family and the Economics of Household Decision Making (2013, methodology): “This success contrasts with the unitary model’s frequent failure to pass the tests of its assumptions (see Behrman, 2003; Browning et al., 2011; Donni, 2008; Vermeulen, 2002 for overarching discussions and surveys).”
Non-Unitary Models of Household Behavior: A Survey of the Literature (2009, background): “…on non-unitary models in recent years, and to update the surveys provided by Bourguignon and Chiappori (1992), Chiappori (1997), Chiuri (2000) and Vermeulen (2002).4 In the following, we will mainly concentrate on cooperative models, insisting on their empirical content, as it is with respect to…”
Gender Differences in Childcare: Time Allocation in Five European Countries (2011, background): “However, as emphasized by Frederic Vermeulen ( 2002 ), some weaknesses of this model have led to a reinterpretation, called the collective model, which holds that a household consists of several individuals with their own rational preferences, in such a way that the intrafamily decision process must”
Consumption and Saving: Models of Intertemporal Allocation and Their Implications for Public Policy (2010, neutral): “…the net position taken by the consumer on each of these assets, . i jt+ω i jtR + i jtA + 7 In the collective model of decision making, households are normally assumed to select efficient allocations, as suggested in Chiappori (1988) – see Vermeulen (2002) for a survey of this in a static setting.”
Estimating Consumption Economies of Scale, Adult Equivalence Scales, and Household Bargaining Power (2003, methodology): “The concept of a sharing rule is borrowed directly from the collective approach (see Chiappori 1992, Browning and Chiappori 1998, and Vermeulen 2000 for a survey).”
Consumption Inequality and Intra-Household Allocations (2007, background): “As in Vermeulen (2003) we assume that married individuals have the same preferences for consumption as single individuals, but possibly different preferences for leisure.”