Do husbands and wives pool their resources? Evidence from the United Kingdom child benefit.
Common preference models of family behavior imply income pooling, a restriction on family demand functions such that only the sum of husband's income and wife's income affects the allocation of goods and time. Testing the pooling hypothesis is difficult because most family income sources are not ex...
| Published in: | Journal of Human Resources Vol. 32; pp. 463 - 481 |
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University of Wisconsin Press
Summer97
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