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Intra-Household Welfare Inequality and Household Public Goods

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  • Pierre-André Chiappori
  • Costas Meghir
  • Yoko Okuyama

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We develop a money metric welfare index for individuals within households, allowing for public goods, work, and heterogeneous preferences for men and women. Using Japanese data, we estimate a collective model of labor supply, private consumption, and expenditures on children and other public goods. We find that women have stronger preference for spending on children and other public goods than men. Within-household inequality is larger than between-household inequality, but has been declining across cohorts, reflecting improvements in women’s position. This is driven by the increase in women’ college graduation, improvement in their relative wages, and the increase in childcare availability.

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  • Pierre-André Chiappori & Costas Meghir & Yoko Okuyama, 2024. "Intra-Household Welfare Inequality and Household Public Goods," NBER Working Papers 32645, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:32645
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    JEL classification:

    • H31 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Household
    • H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply

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