RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a … effect of the price shock on household welfare through consumption and wage incomes. Poor rural households suffer significant … welfare losses due to higher prices of consumption goods, which are regressive. However they benefit from a rise in wage …

10% for most of these commodities. Using Indian micro-level survey data for consumption and income, we carefully estimate … the effect of these price increases on household welfare. We account for negative consumption impacts as well as the … positive effects through wages and income. We consider both perfect and imperfect pass-through from world to domestic prices …

consumption expenditure per capita and increasing the probability of falling into consumption poverty, it has no effect on wealth … and the status of wealth poverty. Decomposing consumption expenditure per capita into food, education, and other non …-food components, the results further reveal that it alters the composition of consumption, as it solely affects food consumption …

In this paper, we examine the impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the consumption of households in rural … China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and … that this effect is stronger for poorer households within villages. Household income per capita and non-durable consumption …

We use CHIP data from 1995, 2002, and 2013 to investigate inequality in urban household consumption expenditures …. Overall inequality in urban household consumption expenditures measured by the Gini coefficient decreased slightly from 0 … to a greater extent. However, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality always increased. In …