TY  - JOUR
AU  - Lazear, Edward P
AU  - Michael, Robert T
TI  - Family Size and the Distribution of Per Capita Income
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 230
PY  - 1981
Y2  - 1981
DO  - 10.3386/w0230
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0230
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0230.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Edward P. Lazear
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
Tel: 650/723-9136
Fax: 650/723-0498
E-Mail: lazear@stanford.edu
AB  - This paper is another contribution to the vast literature which addresses this issue: comparison of household income per capita among households of different structures requires judgment about the relationship between real income and family size. Our work uses a revealed preference approach in which household size/structure variables are included in empirical demand studies and the estimated coefficients on these variables are used to infer equivalence; it differs from many of the other studies not in basic concept but in its empirical strategy. While most studies build family composition effects into a relatively formal structural model of demand and impose considerable restriction in order to obtain an estimable system, we use a reduced-form approach which requires much less of the data.
ER  -