to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject … equal sharing, and find large gender gaps in resource shares, and consequently in poverty rates, in some countries. …

from Bangladesh and Mexico, and use the model estimates to compute poverty rates for men, women, and children. Contrary to … existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take …

Forward-looking poverty analyses are essential for targeting and implementing poverty prevention interventions. In the … presence of uncertainty and risk, the current poverty status of households is not a good indicator of whether they will be poor … household welfare and poverty measures based on the financial concept of risk aversion and the volatility in welfare, measured …

This paper examines the allocation of resources of poverty rates within households in Suriname. To this end we employ a …

identified households as living below the poverty line (BPL) and hence eligible for certain benefits. Such identification … indicators to match state poverty caps. Finally, we show how state-level BPL poverty caps vary if they reflect multiple … deprivations in variables – such as malnutrition and housing – through a multidimensional poverty index, rather than reflecting …