Consumption Inequality Among Children: Evidence from Child Fostering in Malawi
利用集体家庭框架开发新方法，识别不同类型儿童间的消费不平等，并应用于马拉维的儿童寄养数据，发现寄养儿童与非寄养儿童之间几乎没有消费不平等。
Abstract The share of household resources devoted to a child may depend on their gender, birth order, or relationship to the household head. However, it is challenging to determine whether parents favour certain children over others as consumption data are collected at the household level and goods are shared among family members. I develop a new methodology using the collective household framework to identify consumption inequality between different types of children. I apply this method to child fostering in Malawi. I find little evidence of inequality between foster and non-foster children.