Out of the Wallet and into the Purse: Using Micro Data to Test Income Pooling

Autor/in	Ward-Batts, Jennifer
Titel	Out of the Wallet and into the Purse: Using Micro Data to Test Income Pooling
Quelle	In: Journal of Human Resources, 43 (2008) 2, S.325-351 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-166X
Schlagwörter	Expenditures; Poverty; Family Income; Foreign Countries; Money Management; Marriage; Childlessness; Family Structure; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausgaben; Armut; Familieneinkommen; Ausland; Ehe; Kinderlosigkeit; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Großbritannien
Abstract	This paper uses an exogenous change in the intrahousehold distribution of income, provided by a change in United Kingdom Family Allowance policy to test the income-pooling hypothesis implied by unitary household models. Expenditure shares are estimated for a wide range of goods using household-level data. Shifts in expenditure shares suggest that children and mothers benefited at the expense of fathers when this policy change shifted income within households from men to women. Similar shifts are not found among married-couple households with no children. This paper refutes income pooling, and confirms and extends results in Lundberg, Pollak, and Wales (1997). (Contains 10 tables and 28 footnotes.) (Author).
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