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Unpacking Household Engel Curves

De Vreyer, Philippe; Lambert, Sylvie; Ravallion, Martin (2020-03), Unpacking Household Engel Curves. https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/20935

Type
Document de travail / Working paper
Date
2020-03
Publisher
NBER Working Papers
Series title
NBER Working Papers
Series number
26850
Published in
Washington
Pages
58
Publication identifier
10.3386/w26850
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Author(s)
De Vreyer, Philippe
Développement, institutions et analyses de long terme [DIAL]
Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine [LEDa]
Lambert, Sylvie cc

Ravallion, Martin
Georgetown University
Abstract (EN)
The classic Working-Leser household Engel curve is unpacked to reveal individual budget allocations across commodities as a function of both individual and household total spending. Two main findings emerge on calibrating our model to an unusual sub-household dataset for Senegal. First, for all except education spending, our results are consistent with the separable structures found in two-stage bargaining and collective models of the household. Second, there are large biases in standard household Engel-curve estimates when compared to consistently aggregated sub-household estimates, though in differing degrees and directions depending on the type of commodity. The main source of bias is a household effect on sub-household spending behavior, though this is partially offset by a bias due to intra-household inequality, which emerges as a confounder in aggregating to the household level.
Subjects / Keywords
household expenditure; Senegal
JEL
D12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
O13 - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

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