This paper estimates the household income growth rates implied by food demand in a sample of urban Chinese households …, suggesting that urban inflation up to 2005 in China was “pro-poor,” in the sense that the increase in the cost of living for …

Using data from the PSID, we find that household income has become noticeably more volatile during the past thirty … years. We estimate that the standard deviation of percent changes in household income rose one-fourth between the early 1970 …

-2012. We focus on extensive and the intensity margins, i.e. how access and additional hours of electricity affect household … increase household welfare while reducing the financial losses of the State Electricity Boards …

This paper compares two indicators of household vulnerability using the Bank of Italy's Survey on Household Income and … Wealth (2008-2014). According to the first indicator, a household is considered vulnerable if its debt service …-to-income ratio exceeds 30 per cent and its income is below the median of the population. According to the second, a household is …

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 … existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take …

household welfare in terms of consumption expenditure, income, assets and poverty status. The results show large gaps between … household welfare while reducing the financial losses of the State Electricity Boards. …