to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject … equal sharing, and find large gender gaps in resource shares, and consequently in poverty rates, in some countries. …

-we observe more heterogeneity than expected and also stickiness at the lowest income levels. Response delays in post-shock …

and 9 percent of a permanent income shock. Our estimates are in line with empirical estimates for the same dataset, that …

households and reduce poverty. Mechanisms that compensate households via payments proportional to labour income are, on the … contrary, more beneficial to higher income households and increase poverty. This is because households with informal labour …