This paper is intended to bridge the theoretical literature describing efficient intra-household behaviour and the … spouses. It examines the key elements of the collective model and discusses its relevance to analysing intra-household …

role of remittances in increasing household consumption and investment and thereby their potential for rebalancing economic … households out of poverty. Remittances thus may help in fighting poverty in the Philippines but not in rebalancing growth …

The study examines the nature and extent of time poverty experienced by men and women in subsistence households in … household survey in Mozambique is used for this analysis. The main findings suggest that women's labor allocation to economic … activities is comparable to that of men. Household chores and care work are women's responsibility, which they perform with …

We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each … household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar … to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject …

collective household model offers an alternative and promising framework to estimate poverty at the individual level while …A key element of anti-poverty policy is the accurate identification of poor individuals. However, measuring poverty at … the individual level is difficult since consumption data are typically collected at the household level. Per capita …