Models of household consumption used to estimate the relative needs of people living in different family types need to … take account of economies of household size, price-like substitution effects and the allocation of consumption among the … individuals of the household. No existing estimation method tackles all three of these issues in a simultaneous and transparent …

Unlike aversion to inequality, aversion to poverty resists formalization in welfare economics. One way to assign … normative significance to the poverty line is to allow the welfare measure to exhibit a discrete loss from poverty (DLP) at z …

(if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … poverty solely and not with inequality is internally inconsistent. …

, fertility, and household composition, are analysed. The effects of the educational expansion on the growth of household incomes …, their distribution and poverty depend very crucially on the hypothesis made on the evolution of returns to education and …

It has been noted that failure to meet the target set by government for reducing the head count ratio of child poverty … argument that absolute poverty is not a meaningful idea, this apology for the failure of government to meet poverty targets … also misses wider problems embedded in recent trends in the household income distribution. For example, inequality measures …