We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each … household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar … to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject …

examines three facets of urban India's housing demand using the latest available nationally representative household data on …Housing, particularly for low income urban households, is a long-standing challenge in India. In 2012, 96 per cent of … the all India urban housing shortage of 18.78 million was confined to low-income economic groups. This study empirically …

Intra-household inequality explains up to 50 percent of the cross-sectional variation in child human capital in the … India. I develop new theory-driven survey measures based on hypothetical scenarios that allow me to separately identify … well as study the role of household resources. I find that parents are driven by efficiency considerations rather than …

This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated …: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a …. Finally, it reflect on differences in the ways that gender inequalities play out across different socio-economic groups …