Kalugina, Ekaterina <br/><br/>
An Analysis of Intra-family Income Sharing from Subjective Data 

 -  2009.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> Our article uses subjective data to study inequality within the family. We use a question on the individual income of each household member. We assume that the answer to the question gives reliable information on income-sharing in the household. Within the framework of a collective model that includes household production, and using the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS), we show that – as expected from the model– the spouses’ wage ratio is a main determinant of the difference in their answers to the income question. We also find a significant effect of the age difference between spouses.