Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- 1 An introduction to applied welfare analysis
- 2 Measuring the cost of children: a theoretical framework
- 3 The collective approach to household behaviour
- 4 Ordinal and cardinal utility: an integration of the two dimensions of the welfare concept
- 5 The determination of welfare in nonintact families
- 6 Female labour supply, housework and family welfare
- 7 Engel equivalence scales in Sri Lanka: exactness, specification, measurement error
- 8 Measuring the life-cycle consumption costs of children
- 9 Family fortunes in the 1970s and 1980s
- 10 Ethically-consistent welfare prescriptions are reference price-independent
- 11 The effect of systematic misperception of income on the subjective poverty line
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
List of contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- 1 An introduction to applied welfare analysis
- 2 Measuring the cost of children: a theoretical framework
- 3 The collective approach to household behaviour
- 4 Ordinal and cardinal utility: an integration of the two dimensions of the welfare concept
- 5 The determination of welfare in nonintact families
- 6 Female labour supply, housework and family welfare
- 7 Engel equivalence scales in Sri Lanka: exactness, specification, measurement error
- 8 Measuring the life-cycle consumption costs of children
- 9 Family fortunes in the 1970s and 1980s
- 10 Ethically-consistent welfare prescriptions are reference price-independent
- 11 The effect of systematic misperception of income on the subjective poverty line
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
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- The Measurement of Household Welfare , pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994