overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities accounts for 14 … intra-household inequality and individual risk of poverty …Intra-household inequalities have long been a source of concern for policy design, but there is very little evidence …

household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. This paper offers a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian …

countries and was reformed in 2008 to alleviate old- age poverty and reduce gender pension gaps. The paper estimates the dynamic … decisions to analyze how the design of a privatized pension system affects gender pension gaps. Chile has one of the longest … impacts. The analysis finds that household structure is an important determinant of the behavioral and distributional impacts …

This paper examines women's power relative to that of their husbands in 23 Sub-Saharan African countries to determine … how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a … novel measure of women's empowerment that is closely linked to classical theories of power, built from spouses' often …

household composition, gender power dynamics, disability, care responsibilities, marital arrangements, intrahousehold …This paper assesses how household context and characteristics shape the welfare trajectory and more specifically the … social assistance program. The analysis is based on a unique data set combining panel household survey data with in …