measures of consumption and income from household surveys. Using a new compilation of more than 2,000 household surveys matched … established. Means of household consumption estimated from surveys are, on average, 20 percentlower than corresponding means from … growth, poverty, and inequality. We find that typicalsurvey measures of consumption and income may exaggerate poverty …

The quality of data on employment income is explored using Tanzanian and Zambian household survey datasets. The extent …

Although household well-being is anchored in long-term average rates of consumption, welfare comparisons typically rely … questions. Identification stems from diary-recall differences in reports from the same household, does not require these reports … insights for interpreting and reconciling diary-recall differences in household expenditure surveys …

poverty rates between female-headed households and male-headed households using the most recent representative household …Gender poverty differences in households are likely to affect female-headed households more than male-headed households …. This paper examined the evolution of the gender poverty rate gap and identified the factors that underlie differences in …