Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. We offer a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics for Russia, using the … equivalence scales constructed from subjective wealth and more than 20 waves of household panel survey data from the Russia …

global estimates of extreme poverty to changing this assumption. The analysis rests on nationally representative household … by household size but by the square-root of household size. While the regional profile of extreme poverty is robust to …Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in …

Much of the recent literature in household economics has been critical of unitary models of household decision … individual models presented in his theory of marriage. Decision-making models assuming independent individual household members … household welfare function …

of monetary and leisure incentives, which reflect the complex welfare system in Ireland. The household extension version … of the model adapts a collective modelling approach, where the intra-household bargaining is considered. We further … reform on household retirement behaviours. The paper, in addition, applies the model to assess individual budgetary …

This paper revisits the issue of the intra-household allocation of education expenditure with the recently available …) and the decision of how much to spend on education, conditional on enrolling. Finally the paper also uses household fixed … effects to examine whether any gender bias is a within-household phenomenon. The paper finds that the traditional Engel method …

are frequently taken at the household level. We fill this gap by developing and estimating an household search model with … ignoring the household as unit of decision-making has relevant empirical consequences. In estimation, the individual search … specification implies gender wage offers differentials 200% larger than the household search specification. In the application, the …

wage differences, variation in prices of bought-in inputs into household production in the form of child care, and domestic … productivity differences as determinants of across-household heterogeneity in second earner labour supply. The analysis highlights … specification of household time use widens the set of cases in which individual taxation is welfare-superior to joint taxation …

There is some controversy in the field of household economics regarding the efficiency of household decisions. We make … the point that a flexible specification of spousal preferences and the household production technology precludes the … possibility of using revealed preference data on household time allocations to determine the manner in which spouses interact …

This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the …