The authors report their findings from an investigation of whether shifting the distribution of resources within the household has an effect upon household community demand. 1980 Personal Survey of Income Distribution data from Taiwan are used with a general individualistic model of the household to determine whether the data are consistent with household members choosing allocations Pareto efficiently. Holding household per capita income constant the share of income attributed to men and women has a significant impact upon the proportion of the budget which is allocated to alcohol tobacco staples and education. That is true whether individual income includes only nonlabor income or both labor and nonlabor income. There is also a suggestion that departures from the common preference model may be greater among urban households and among older couples. These results suggest that while the common preference model may be too restrictive households do behave Pareto efficiently.
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