distinctive social identities in India, where social identities are defined by caste and religious affiliations. The … classification of such items was done by eliciting responses to a survey in India. We match the results of our survey with nationally … representative micro data on household consumption expenditures. We find that disadvantaged caste groups such as Other Backward …

sector to the non-state sector in urban China as a quasi-experiment to analyze the intergenerational impact of social …

influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for … migrants and local residents. Contrary to previous studies that report that the income poverty rate of migrant households is 1 ….5 times that of local resident households, we find relatively small differences in the poverty rates of migrants and local …

, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … and household welfare. Special attention is paid to methodological issues on how to design a module and operationalize … and discuss a generic household module that can be easily inserted into future socio-economic surveys implemented in …

-being inside couples. To our knowledge, this effect has never been taken into account by existing economic models of the household …

This article considers non-unitary models of household behavior. These models suppose explicitly that households … household behavior in these models are subject to constraints that differ from the traditional Slutsky conditions. In addition …, in a certain number of specific cases, the preferences of the different household members can be identified from …

This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to make precise the idea that because households are engaged in a … specialisation and exchange which exists in the household. The household's choice of a particular solution from the resulting … feasible set is found by the maximisation of a household welfare function, a generalisation of a suggestion originally made by …

household are found to be negatively related to the husband’s education among newlyweds but to rise faster over the course of a …