preferences. Full insurance cannot be rejected. As the risk-sharing as-if-complete-markets theory might predict, estimated risk …We show how to use panel data on household consumption to directly estimate households’ risk preferences. Specifically … preferences are unrelated to wealth or other characteristics. The heterogeneity matters for policy: Although the average household …

existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take … that are common in developing countries. Based on a collective household model, we develop a new methodology to identify … the intra-household allocation of resources and the extent of consumption sharing. We apply our methodology using data …

Anti-poverty policies often aim to reach poor individuals by targeting poor households. However, intra-household … individual-level poverty rates that account for intra-household inequality. We show that women, children, and the elderly face … undernourished individuals are spread across the household per-capita expenditure distribution. We then quantify the extent of food …

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

This paper estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household consumption and poverty in Nigeria, the … nationally representative longitudinal household survey on living standards with information from Nigerian mobile operators on … coverage had large and positive impacts on household consumption levels which increased over time, although at a decreasing …

We investigate the relationship between the individual and household indirect utility functions in the context of a … collective household model. Our analysis produces new results that explain how the rule governing the distribution of resources … among household members is related to the measurement of household welfare and intra-household inequality. We show that in a …

.Widowhood poverty is no greater than that overall,but the picture changes dramatically if we allow economies of household size …This study investigates on Pakistani and South African data gender issues in household behavior.A test for gender bias …

effects on household poverty. First, it is associated with a decline in a household's likelihood of being poor by 27 percent …. Second, it prevents a household's exposure to future poverty by 28 percent. Female-headed households have a greater chance of …This study examines the effect of financial inclusion on poverty and vulnerability to poverty of Ghanaian households …

This paper assesses the role of financial inclusion in moderating the incidence of entrepreneurship on energy poverty … unconditional positive incidence on energy poverty while the interactive incidence between entrepreneurship and financial inclusion … on energy poverty is negative. The corresponding financial inclusion policy thresholds that should be exceeded in order …