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Household Semi-Public Goods and the Estimation of Consumer Equivalence Scales: Some First Steps
Household Semi-Public Goods and the Estimation of Consumer Equivalence Scales: Some First Steps
dc.contributor.author | Bradbury, Bruce | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-25T12:33:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-11-25T12:33:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1995 | en_US |
dc.description.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 (1985) with a Samuelson-type (1956) 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. | en_US |
dc.identifier.isbn | 0733410723 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1447-8978 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/33980 | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | EN | en_US |
dc.publisher | Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | SPRC Discussion Paper | en_US |
dc.rights | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ | en_US |
dc.source | Legacy MARC | en_US |
dc.title | Household Semi-Public Goods and the Estimation of Consumer Equivalence Scales: Some First Steps | en_US |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dcterms.accessRights | metadata only access | |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | en_US |
unsw.accessRights.uri | http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_14cb | |
unsw.publisher.place | Sydney | en_US |
unsw.relation.faculty | Arts Design & Architecture | |
unsw.relation.ispartofworkingpapernumber | 59 | en_US |
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation | Bradbury, Bruce, Social Policy Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW | en_US |
unsw.relation.school | Social Policy Research Centre | * |