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Poor vs non-poor households in Uruguay : welfare differences from food price changes
Echeverría, Lucía; Molina, José Alberto - 2021
changes in food expenditures and prices and simulate the welfare losses from food price changes across poverty definitions. We …-poor households only to changes in beverage prices. Additionally, changes in household economic welfare due to price increases vary … according to poverty status. On average, the percentage of total income needed to avoid a loss in economic welfare of poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589164
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The role of visible wealth for deprivation
Bertram-Hümmer, Veronika; Baliki, Ghassan - 2014
Motivated by the lack of literature linking actual to perceived relative deprivation, this paper assesses the role of visibility in the deprivation of goods and assets vis-à-vis income behind perceptions of relative deprivation. We rely on household survey data that includes unique information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010363484
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Poverty Dynamics in Benin : A Markovian Process Approach (Dynamique De La Pauvrete AU Benin: Approche Par Le Processus Markovien)
Hodonou, Assogba - 2018
In this paper the Markov model has been used to analyze poverty dynamics in Benin. Assuming that the observed successive changes in well-being classes at the household level could be considered as a Markov chain, the first-step-analysis method is used to derive several indicators to measure the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940587
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The Role of Visible Wealth for Deprivation
Bertram-Hümmer, Veronika - 2014
Motivated by the lack of literature linking actual to perceived relative deprivation, this paper assesses the role of visibility in the deprivation of goods and assets vis-à-vis income behind perceptions of relative deprivation. We rely on household survey data that includes unique information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052316
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Poverty and Vulnerability in Burkina Faso : A Composite Indicator of Hardcore Poverty (Pauvrete Et Vulnerabilite AU Burkina Faso: Indicateur Composite De Noyau Dur De La Pauvrete)
Ouarme, Alaya; Ouili, Idrissa; Basse, Awa Maty - 2018
Programs to reduce inequalities between countries and between individuals have raised conscience of the issue of poverty and fostered the implementation of measurement and analytical techniques. In Burkina Faso, poverty reduction strategies remain primarily driven by studies of its monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191363
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Coordination and the poor maintenance trap : an experiment on public infrastructure in India
Armand, Alex; Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella - 2021
coordination failure. Focusing on shared sanitation facilities for slum residents in two major Indian cities, we randomly allocate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583568
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Do people in income poverty use their income efficiently? A subjective well-being approach
Rojas, Mariano - 2012
A subjective well-being approach is followed to assess the magnitude of inefficiency in the use of income. The information comes from a Mexican survey and an X-inefficiency technique is used. The paper shows that there exists substantial inefficiency in the use of income at all income levels,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319920
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Intrahousehold distribution and child poverty: Theory and evidence from Côte d'Ivoire
Bargain, Olivier; Donni, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2011
Poverty measures in developing countries often ignore the distribution of resources within families and the gains from joint consumption. In this paper, we extend the collective model of household consumption to recover mother's, father's and children's shares together with economies of scale,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282294
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Intrahousehold distribution and child poverty : theory and evidence from Côte d’Ivoire
Bargain, Olivier; Donni, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2011
Poverty measures in developing countries often ignore the distribution of resources within families and the gains from joint consumption. In this paper, we extend the collective model of household consumption to recover mother's, father's and children's shares together with economies of scale,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488411
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Do people in income poverty use their income efficiently? : a subjective well-being approach
Rojas, Mariano - 2012
A subjective well-being approach is followed to assess the magnitude of inefficiency in the use of income. The information comes from a Mexican survey and an X-inefficiency technique is used. The paper shows that there exists substantial inefficiency in the use of income at all income levels,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691046