..., Chiappori and Lewbel (BCL) (2013) provide a general collective household model whose parameters (shadow budgets and shadow prices) [ 2 ] may be estimated with data on the consumption behaviour of single individuals and collective households at many budgets and price vectors. Gender bias Collective...

...Amita Majumder; Chayanika Mitra Purpose This paper aims to detect gender bias in education expenditure on “students”, who are children and young adults, in a household in the rural and the urban sectors of West Bengal. Outlay equivalent ratios have been calculated using the Engel curve approach...

... in the second-stage estimation of the model. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Human capital Regional variation Child schooling Community or village level effects Gender bias Household fixed effects J16, J24, O15, I20, D13 The Indian economy has grown at a rapid pace over...