in educational outcomes might be attributed to an uneven allocation of household resources towards the schooling of boys …

transfers. When controlling for a number of household characteristics including income, households that already own technology …

This paper applies recent developments in collective model estimation to elicit the household resource sharing rule, i ….e. the amount of household resources accruing to fathers, mothers, and their children among African families in South Africa … specific household members, to be used for identification. We rely on a collective model of household consumption that accounts …

Since the start of sharp electricity tariff increases in 2008, South African household demand for electricity has not …

How does income inequality impact the propensity for and levels of formal and informal household debt? This paper … as well as a zero-inflated Poisson model are employed, and inequality is measured by a household relative deprivation … small-scale ventures and household financial security and a keeping-up effect- through hire purchase of furniture and …

This study investigates the short-term impacts of an aggregate socioeconomic shock on household food consumption and … household survey data from 2019-20, which includes a detailed consumption module and anthropometric measures for children under … five. We use a repeated cross-sectional econometric analysis to look at the variation in household food consumption and …

Analysis of household food consumption patterns and welfare requires knowledge of household demand responses to changes … in price and income. Estimation of the price and expenditure elasticities requires detailed data on household purchases … price data, two approaches are mostly used: community prices and unit value (obtained by dividing household expenditure by …

propensity to consume from unearned income is about three times larger than that from earned income, based on household panel …