In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to … describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household … individual utility functions and the household power weight distribution, which is parameterized per household. The model is …

time to different activities. In order to do so, we empirically estimate a collective household labor supply model. The … main findings are that: (1) Leisure and household income are the most important variables in the utility function of the … male; (2) Leisure, total household production and total household production interacted with family size are important …

equivalence scales constructed from subjective wealth and more than 20 waves of household panel survey data from the Russia … Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. Our analysis suggests that the equivalence scale elasticity is sensitive to household demographic …

. Analyzing 34 longitudinal household and phone survey rounds from Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Tanzania, and …. We find that policies targeting individual household members are most effective for improving learning activities … household head employment with learning activities for almost all the countries. …

disaggregated household level. Validation using Monte Carlo simulations and real cross-sectional and actual panel survey data - from …

Household consumption data are often unavailable, not fully collected, or incomparable over time in poorer countries … effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine existing poverty imputation models using 14 multi-topic household … surveys conducted over the past decade in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam. We find that adding household …

Survey data on household consumption are often unavailable or incomparable over time in many low- and middle …, household assets and housing, yield accurate predictions. Imputation accuracy is robust to varying survey questionnaire length …

growth. Our findings suggest that factors such as education attainment, female household headship, urban residence, and non …