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Children, Standard of Living and Distributions in the Family

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1997

STEIN RINGEN
Affiliation:
Professor of Sociology, Department of Applied Social Studies and Social Research, University of Oxford.
BRENDAN HALPIN
Affiliation:
Senior Research Officer, ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, University of Essex.

Abstract

The standard of living of children depends on (i) family income; (ii) production within the family; (iii) economies of scale within the family; and (iv) distributions within the family. We use 1976 and 1986 Family Expenditure Survey information on (i), models of housework time based on time-budget surveys to estimate (ii), and equivalence scales to take account of (iii).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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