Intra-household inequalities have long been a source of concern for policy design, but there is very little evidence … overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities accounts for 14 … percent of inequality in Senegal. The authors uncover the fact that household structure and organization are key correlates of …

-commerce development has shaped household consumption growth in China. The paper presents three major findings. First, e …

between private social networks, use of informal credit, and household consumption. Instrumental variable regressions indicate …

Analysis of household expenditure surveys since 2008 in 22 Sub-Saharan African countries shows that one-third of all …, lack of affordability is the greatest barrier to household connection. Lifeline rates enabling the poor to use grid … of detailed information on residential schedules enabled calculation of the percentage of total household expenditures …

method utilizes expenditure data from 2004-05, 2009-10, and 2011-12 to impute household expenditure into a survey of durable …

the macro level a flexible monetary regime is associated with fewer cutbacks in household consumption. At the meso level … impact of income shocks on household consumption, with the former especially important in middle-income countries …

Consumption expenditure has long been the preferred measure of household living standards. However, accurate … measurement is a challenge and household expenditure surveys vary widely across many dimensions, including the level of reporting … and temporally consistent measurement of household consumption and poverty. A field experiment in Tanzania tests eight …

rounds of Living Standards Measurement Study surveys from Malawi, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Ghana to construct indices …, perform well in urban settings. Yet, in rural samples and when identifying the extreme poor, household rankings and poverty …

less on selling household assets or livestock to cope with drought. In Burkina Faso and Ghana, international remittance … in the aftermath of natural disasters in countries that have a larger number of migrants abroad. Analysis of household …