Projects
One for all and all for cash? An inquiry into sustainable social network and collective action effects of cash transfers in rural Uganda. University of Antwerp
Searching for partners via friends: implications for household formation and economic decisions University of Antwerp
Collective choice and children. KU Leuven
Collective choice, children and revealed preference KU Leuven
The collective model has become increasingly popular in the microeconomics literature. In the collective approach, household members are involved in a bargaining process that takes place inside the household and that results in Pareto−efficient intra−household allocations. Thanks to its particular starting point of individual preferences, along with its better empirical performance, the collective model has become the most popular alternative ...
Marriage markets, household consumption and individual welfare KU Leuven
Empirical analysis of household consumption and marriage decisions: a structural approach based on revealed preferences KU Leuven
We focus on the empirical analysis of household consumption through structural models of individual preferences and within-household interactions. Our specific contribution is that we integrate marriage market (matching) dynamics into the modelling of household consumption. The marriage market defines the outside options (or threat points) of (adult) household members, which indirectly impacts the intrahousehold consumption allocation (e.g. ...