consumption expenditure surveys. Recent research has advocated for calculating hunger numbers directly from these same surveys …

nutritional choice beyond calories to a more complete understanding of macro- and micronutrient consumption. To help move the … literature on data collection forward we randomly assigned six different survey modules to measure food consumption across … currently in use in multipurpose household surveys collecting food consumption expenditures in some detail at national scale …

This paper uses data from eight different consumption questionnaires randomly assigned to 4,000 households in Tanzania … to obtain evidence on the nature of measurement errors in estimates of household consumption. While there are no … questionnaires shows that errors have a negative correlation with the true value of consumption, creating a non-classical measurement …

Surveys of consumption expenditure vary widely across many dimensions, including the level of reporting, the length of … consistent measurement of household consumption and poverty. A field experiment in Tanzania tests eight alternative methods of … measuring household consumption, finding significant differences between consumption reported by the benchmark personal diary …

Consumption expenditure has long been the preferred measure of household living standards. However, accurate … and temporally consistent measurement of household consumption and poverty. A field experiment in Tanzania tests eight … alternative methods to measure household consumption on a sample of 4,000 households. There are significant differences between …

geographically disperse networks, on which the authors collected detailed panel data. By quantifying how shocks and consumption co … 3 to 7 percent of their very substantial consumption growth to provide this insurance, which seems too trivial to have …

long-run consumption growth of surviving household members. Using unique data which tracks individuals from 1991 to 2004 …, they examine consumption growth, controlling for a set of initial community, household and individual characteristics. The … evidence that an affected household will see consumption drop 7 percent within the first five years after the adult death. With …