Search Results - subject:"adult equivalence scales"

Lower Inequality and Lower Development: A Contradiction Sensitivity Analysis of Jammu and Kashmir

Mushtaq, Saeed Owais; Iqbal Khan, Javaid; Majeed, Mehak - In: Statistics, Politics and Policy 13 (2022) 3, pp. 315-345

Abstract The standard method of poverty estimation uses unadjusted per capita income or expenditure to calculate population below the poverty line. However, recent empirical advancements have validated this method to be essentially flawed in nature. It does not take into consideration nor allows...

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Alternative Distributions for Inequality and Poverty Comparisons

Creedy, John - 2013

is given to the choice of income unit. The need to avoid spurious comparisons is stressed. The use of adult equivalence … scales and the application of an explicit sharing rule are considered. Comparisons over time, where both the tax structure …

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Alternative Distributions for Inequality and Poverty Comparisons

Creedy, John - Victoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington - 2013

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Alternative Distributions for Inequality and Poverty Comparisons

Creedy, John - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2013

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Estimation of Collective Household Models With Engel Curves

Lewbel, Arthur; Pendakur, Krishna - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2008

The structural consumer demand methods used to estimate the parameters of collective household models are typically either very restrictive and easy to implement or very general and difficult to estimate. In this paper, we provide a middle ground. We adapt the very general framework of Browning,...

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How invariant is South African child poverty to the choice of equivalence scale or poverty measure?

Streak, Judith; Yu, Derek; Berg, Servaas van der - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2008

This paper offers evidence on the sensitivity of child poverty in South Africa to changes in the Adult Equivalence Scale (AES) and updates the child poverty profile based on the Income and Expenditure Survey 2005/06. Setting the poverty line at the 40th percentile of households calculated with...

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Consumption inequality and intra-household allocations

Lise, Jeremy; Seitz, Shannon - 2007

The consumption literature uses adult equivalence scales to measure individual level inequality. This practice imposes … within households produces misleading estimates of inequality along two dimensions. First, the use of adult equivalence … scales underestimates the level of cross sectional consumption inequality by 30%, as large differences in the earnings of …

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Estimating consumption economies of scale, adult equivalence scales, and household bargaining power

Browning, Martin James; Chiappori, Pierre-André; … - In: The review of economic studies 80 (2013) 4, pp. 1267-1303

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Consumption Inequality and Intra-Household Allocations

Seitz, Shannon; Lise, Jeremy - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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Estimating Consumption Economies of Scale, Adult Equivalence Scales, and Household Bargaining Power

Lewbel, Arthur; Browning, Martin; Chiappori, Pierre-Andrée - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2004

demonstrate generic nonparametric identification of the model, and hence of a version of adult equivalence scales that we call …

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