Measuring intra-household inequalities: why and how?
In this seminar, I discuss the challenge of measuring intra-household inequality: how can we “open the black-box” of the household decision-making process in order to identify a money-metric measure of intra-household inequalities?
I review a set of successful framing attempts, mostly inspired by the collective model literature, that reaches such an identification. It covers different model assumptions, econometric specifications and data structure. In my talk I will mainly discuss the motives of the quest, as well as the cost to pay to reach identification. I conclude by setting my view on some priorities for future evolutions of households models.
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