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Poor vs non-poor households in Uruguay : welfare differences from food price changes

Echeverría, Lucía; Molina, José Alberto - 2021

changes in food expenditures and prices and simulate the welfare losses from food price changes across poverty definitions. We …-poor households only to changes in beverage prices. Additionally, changes in household economic welfare due to price increases vary … according to poverty status. On average, the percentage of total income needed to avoid a loss in economic welfare of poor …

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Assessing differences in household needs : a comparison of approaches for the estimation of equivalence scales using German expenditure data

Dudel, Christian; Garbuszus, Jan Marvin; Schmied, Julian - 2017

Equivalence scales are routinely applied to adjust the income of households of different size and composition. Because of their practical importance for the measurement of inequality and poverty, a large number of methods for the estimation of equivalence scales have been proposed. Until now, no...

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Analysis of household demand patterns using household data : re-thinking the use of unit values or community prices

Nsabimana, Aimable - 2024

Analysis of household food consumption patterns and welfare requires knowledge of household demand responses to changes …

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Wealth Effects on Consumption Plans : French Households in the Crisis

Arrondel, Luc - 2015

This paper analyzes the wealth effect on consumption in France by relying on two original household surveys. First, it provides the first estimate of the marginal propensity to consume out of wealth based on micro data for France (Enquête Patrimoine 2009, Insee): a low but significant wealth...

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The measurement of child costs : a rothbarth-type method consistent with scale economies

Bargain, Olivier; Donni, Olivier - 2009

We propose a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children). Following the principle of the Rothbarth approach, the identification of the children's share requires the observation of at least one adult-specific good. However, our...

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The measurement of child costs : evidence from Ireland

Bargain, Olivier; Donni, Olivier; Gbakou, Monnet - 2009

We apply an extension of the Rothbarth approach to estimate the share of household resources accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children) in Ireland. The method also allows us to identify the economies of scale in the household and indifference scales in Lewbel (2003)’s sense. A practical...

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Intrahousehold distribution and child poverty : theory and evidence from Côte d’Ivoire

Bargain, Olivier; Donni, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2011

Poverty measures in developing countries often ignore the distribution of resources within families and the gains from joint consumption. In this paper, we extend the collective model of household consumption to recover mother's, father's and children's shares together with economies of scale,...

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Shopping around : how households adjusted food spending over the Great Recession

Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate - 2015

Over the Great Recession UK households reduced real food expenditure. We show that they were able to maintain the number of calories that they purchased, and the nutritional quality of these calories, by adjusting their shopping behaviour. We document the mechanisms that households used. We...

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Personality Traits and Household Consumption Choices

Mangiavacchi, Lucia - 2018

In this paper, we test whether consumption choices are affected by personality traits and whether this impact is different for singles and individuals living in couples. To fulfill this aim, we test the impact of personality on preferences for different commodities using the German...

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Validating the Collective Model of Household Consumption Using Direct Evidence on Sharing

Bargain, Olivier - 2018

it makes welfare analysis at the individual level possible, the predictive power of the model is unknown. We propose the … crucial for both acad- emic and policy circles and militates in favor of a systematic use of collective models for welfare …

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