Eligibility and benefits for anti-poverty income transfers in the U.S. are based on both the means and the household …

obtained from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. It assesses total inequality and its within-household component for two … and break it down into betweenhousehold and within-household components. Overall inequality tends to be higher in … than half of the total inequality. Intra-household inequality is an issue in countries even when, on average, there is …

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 …

the individual level is difficult since consumption data are typically collected at the household level. Per capita … measures based on household-level data ignore both inequality within the household and economies of scale in consumption. The … collective household model offers an alternative and promising framework to estimate poverty at the individual level while …

This paper applies recent developments in collective model estimation to elicit the household resource sharing rule, i ….e. the amount of household resources accruing to fathers, mothers, and their children among African families in South Africa … specific household members, to be used for identification. We rely on a collective model of household consumption that accounts …