Household Equivalence Scales: Theory versus Policy?

Nelson, Julie A.

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“…Indeed as both Browning (1992) and Nelson (1993) show this is the most common approach to equivalence scale calculation in the US and many other countries. Methodologically, economists dislike this approach because of its prescriptive, non choice-based nature and its implicit identification of "welfare" with a narrow set of measures of physical well-being.…”

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“…That is, we have a compensating variation measure of child costs, which can be put in terms of an equivalence scale by dividing it by the income the childless household or individual would require to achieve the same utility level. As Nelson (1993) makes clear this formulation implies a basic redefinition of the question that child cost measurement is designed to answer, and one which puts in question the policy relevance of the results. The policy concern is with the material welfare of each household member including, or especially, that of the children, and not simply the utility level of the adults.…”

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Household production, full consumption and the costs of children

Apps

Rees

2001

Labour Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent, nonprofit limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) supported by the Deutsche Post AG. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its research networks, research support, and visitors and doctoral programs. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. The current research program deals with (1) mobility and flexibility of labor markets, (2) internationalization of labor markets and European integration, (3) the welfare state and labor markets, (4) labor markets in transition, (5) the future of work, (6) project evaluation and (7) general labor economics. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. ABSTRACT Household Production, Full Consumption and the Costs of ChildrenRecent work criticises both the logic and relevance of the theoretical basis of the approach to estimating the costs of raising children adopted in much of the economics literature. This tends to be restricted purely to models in which the household members consume market goods with given household income. The "costs of children" are perceived essentially as market consumption costs. This ignores the fact that an important, possibly preponderant element of child costs takes the form of parental time, which must be diverted from alternative uses such as market work, other house-hold production activities and leisure, to care for children. The studies also ignore the question of the distribution of income among adults and, in particular, the differential incidence of child costs on adult members of the household. In this paper we first of all argue that a satisfactory theoretical approach to modelling child costs must simultaneously incorporate an "individualistic" formulation of the household (as in Apps and Rees, 1988, 99) and a formal treatment of household production (as suggested by Becker 1965, and adapted in Apps and Rees, 1988, 99). We th...

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Household production, full consumption and the costs of children

Apps

Rees

2001

Labour Economics

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“…Responden di wilayah perkotaan dan pedesaan mempunyai jumlah anggota rumah tangga yang hampir sama, hal tersebut mengindikasikan bahwa ukuran rumah tangga perkotaan dan pedesaan hampir sama. Ukuran rumah tangga menggunakan metode adult equivalent (Nelson, 1993;Gamba, 2005;Browne et al, 2007;Fiedler et al, 2008;Maharjan dan Joshi, 2009 Pekerjaan utama kepala rumah tangga di pedesaan adalah pekerjaan pada bidang pertanian. Berdasarkan hasil perhitungan 51,30% kepala rumah tangga bekerja pada bidang pertanian dan sisanya bekerja pada bidang non pertanian.…”

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Household Decision Analysis on Animal Protein Food Consumption: Evidence From D.I Yogyakarta Province

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Food consumption pattern in Indonesia has change. Consumption of animal protein food is increasing as income increase. Animal protein foods are come from fish products and livestock products. The aim of this study is to analyze household decision on animal protein food consumption based on socioeconomics determinant of the households. Household expenditure data were used in this study. Discrete choice model is used to measure household decision in consuming these foods. Socioeconomics determinants are measured by Binary Logistic regression to know the influence of these to the household’s decision. Marginal effect value from binary logistic regression analysis showed that households tend to increase consuming animal protein food from livestock products varies from 0.5 to 6.09 times associated to socioeconomic factors of the households. Further research need to analyze nutritional status of the household’s members.

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“…5 See Blundell andLewbel (1991), Browning (1992), Nelson (1993), Dickens et al (1993), Pashardes (1995) for reviews of related literatures.…”

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Country Inequality Rankings and Conversion Schemes

Schröder

Bönke

2012

Economics

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Two conversion schemes may be employed for assessing income inequality from household equivalent incomes: to weight household units by size or by needs. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we show the sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap approach is implemented to test for statistical significance of our results. JEL D31, D63, I32

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Household Equivalence Scales: Theory versus Policy?

Cited by 94 publications

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Household production, full consumption and the costs of children

Household production, full consumption and the costs of children

Household Decision Analysis on Animal Protein Food Consumption: Evidence From D.I Yogyakarta Province

Country Inequality Rankings and Conversion Schemes

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