this paper, we employ German household expenditure data to estimate exact equivalence scales using several parametric …

, we investigate the linkage among mobile phone ownership, off-farm work, and household welfare, especially monetary and … household total income andper capita income while it alleviates poverty headcount, depth of poverty, and multidimensional …-farm employment. Another dimension of household welfare affected by the choice of income source is income inequality. The Gini …

This paper investigates the relationship between individual labour market outcomes, household income and expenditure …, and inequality and poverty in New Zealand using detailed data from the 1983/84-2003/04 Household Economic Survey (HES). We … relationship between individual labour market outcomes, and household income and expenditure for households with different …

from the 2010 Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). We are particularly interested in the way in which specific …

In this paper, we employ stochastic dominance (SD) analysis on household unit records to measure relative welfare … importance in narrowing welfare gaps over time. We also found that gender of household head and education attainments matter for …

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 …

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 …