Household behavior and individual autonomy: A Lindahl approach

Claude d’Aspremont and Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira
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Working Papers of BETA from Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, UDS, Strasbourg

Abstract: A comprehensive model of economic household decision is presented which incorporates both fully cooperative and fully non-cooperative variants, parameterized by the income distribution, as well as a semi-cooperative variant, parameterized in addition by a vector B, representing the degrees of individual autonomy. In this comprehensive model, the concept of "household B-equilibrium" is introduced through the reformulation of the Lindahl equilibrium in strategic terms. Existence is proved and some generic properties of the household B-equilibrium derived. An example is given to illustrate. Finally a particular decomposition of the pseudo-Slutsky matrix is derived and the testability of the various models discussed.

Keywords: Intra-household allocation; household financial management; degree of autonomy; Lindahl prices; local income pooling; separate spheres. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 D10 H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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