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Patterns of Income and Expenditure within Families*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

David Piachaud
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Abstract

Intra-familial income distribution and the new economics of the family are discussed and questions raised concerning the distribution of income and expenditure within families. Using data from the Family Expenditure Survey 1977 for couples, the incomes and expenditures of the man and the woman are analysed. While incomes are generally highly unequal and expenditures on certain commodities are heavily concentrated on one partner, expendtiure patterns bore no clear relationship to the relative shares of the man and the woman in total income.

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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , October 1982 , pp. 469 - 482
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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