We use CHIP data from 1995, 2002, and 2013 to investigate inequality in urban household consumption expenditures …. Overall inequality in urban household consumption expenditures measured by the Gini coefficient decreased slightly from 0 … to a greater extent. However, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality always increased. In …

determinants of per capita household consumption and of its growth rate. Many households relocate for non-economic reasons, and to …

In this paper, we estimate consumption in the first wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey for … a subset of countries that account for around 85% of the aggregate final consumption expenditure of households in the … questions on consumption asked to households participating in the survey and information on consumption collected in the …

) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of …, we find that household size matters in consumption poverty while we do not find significant effects on multidimensional … poverty. Amongst the shocks, drought shock is found to affect consumption poverty but not multidimensional poverty. This …

insurance and credit markets, we fail to reject the hypothesis of full insurance of total non-durable consumption and its … components. Survey responses indicate that the main channels of consumption smoothing are self-insurance (for adverse weather … full insurance is that some shocks to consumption (e.g., illness) play the role of preference shifters of the utility …

) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of … find that household size matters in consumption poverty while we do not find significant effects on multidimensional … poverty. Amongst the shocks, drought shock is found to affect consumption poverty but not multidimensional poverty. This …

This paper presents evidence on the effects of access to domestic and international markets on per capita consumption …) better access to both domestic and international markets has positive effects on per capita consumption, (ii) the domestic …

insurance and credit markets, we fail to reject the hypothesis of full insurance of total non-durable consumption and its … components. Survey responses indicate that the main channels of consumption smoothing are self-insurance (for adverse weather … rejecting the hypothesis of full insurance is that some shocks to consumption (e.g., illness) play the role of preference …