| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 經濟學系 === 87 === The main purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis of the altruistically-linked relationship between the male and female heads of the household unit by utilizing the household micro data. Predicted by the altruistically linked model, if there exists altruistically linked relationship within the household, the household's demand would depend solely on the household's total resources. Which is to say, that we are interested in finding out that whether the income distribution of the household members would affect the distribution of consumption modes of the household members. As indicated by the empirical results, in additional to total income of the household, we find out that, at lease one of the spouses' income effect is significantly different from zero; whether we use the ordinary lease square or the two-stage least square models. The result suggests that the final consumption of the household would be discrepant due to the different resource allocations of the household members; the behavior of the male and female household heads of the Taiwanese families does not support the hypothesis of the strictly theoretical altruistically -linked model.
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