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Are Intra-Household Allocations Efficient?

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  • Aguero, Jorge M.

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This paper describes two problems when testing the efficiency of intra-household allocations. First, using Monte Carlo simulations I show that the test proposed for efficiency in consumption has a high type-II error, leading to a false acceptance of the hypothesis. Second, I show it is possible that even under asymmetric information the hypothesis of efficiency, incorrectly, cannot be rejected. Finally, I propose a test to account for asymmetric of information.

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  • Aguero, Jorge M., 2003. "Are Intra-Household Allocations Efficient?," 2003 Annual meeting, July 27-30, Montreal, Canada 22061, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaea03:22061
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.22061
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