collective household model offers an alternative and promising framework to estimate poverty at the individual level while …A key element of anti-poverty policy is the accurate identification of poor individuals. However, measuring poverty at … the individual level is difficult since consumption data are typically collected at the household level. Per capita …

household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this … higher when using the household-based measure. Similarly, the age differentials in poverty are much larger using the …Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the …

measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves …. For the poverty analysis, we propose a fuzzy intrahousehold index which is less sensitive to small changes around the … poverty line compared to standard FGT indices and produce more reliable results. This provides an interesting approach to …

Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element …, measures of inequality that ignore intra household allocations are both incomplete and misleading. We discuss determinants of … intra household allocation of resources and welfare. We show how the sharing rule, which characterizes the within household …

paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to …In many developing countries, there does not exist a time series of nationally repre- sentative household budget or … income surveys, while there often are urban household surveys as well as nationally representative Demographic and Health …

of their practical importance for the measurement of inequality and poverty, a large number of methods for the estimation … this paper, we employ German household expenditure data to estimate exact equivalence scales using several parametric … estimate are close to the modified OECD scale. Calculating the Gini coefficient, we find that the at-risk-of-poverty rate and …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. We offer a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics for Russia, using the … equivalence scales constructed from subjective wealth and more than 20 waves of household panel survey data from the Russia …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …

Poverty is generally defined as income or expenditure insufficiency, but the economic condition of a household also … household net worth. We review and assess two main approaches followed in the literature: income-net worth measures and asset-poverty … depends on its real and financial asset holdings. This paper investigates measures of poverty that rely on indicators of …

, meaning that multidimensional poverty status of the household is equated with the multidimensional poverty status of all …Most existing empirical papers concerned about multidimensional poverty use the house- hold as the unit of analysis … individuals in the household. This assumption, nonetheless, overlooks important within-household features and ignores the intra-household …