Examining rationality of expenditures and analyzing welfare changes are interrelated because welfare change analysis is predicated on “rational” (i.e., expenditure-minimizing) responses to price and income changes. This study examined Philippine family demands for (1) electricity, (2) gas...

Inflation is often assumed to affect all people in the same way. In practice, differences in spending patterns across households and differences in price increases across goods and services lead to unequal levels of inflation for different households. In this paper, we measure the degree of...

Inflation is often assumed to affect all people in the same way. In practice, differences in spending patterns across households and differences in price increases across goods and services lead to unequal levels of inflation for different households. In this paper, we measure the degree of...

Two previous articles proposed and validated a continuous measure of the material standard of living as concerns basic household infrastructure (housing, water, energy and sanitation). The scale is based on Principal Component Analysis of a large number of variables derived from census...

In a previous paper a quantitative scale was developed, and applied to Bolivia, to measure some basic aspects of the material standard of living, namely those related to the physical infrastructure of households, involving shelter and basic services as measured in population censuses. Using data...

In the context of analysis of Millennium Goals and Human Development in Bolivia a synthetic measure of household infrastructure was developed. The measure was constructed applying factor analysis to a large number of census indicators concerning shelter, living space, water supply, energy and...

Inflation is often assumed to affect all people in the same way. In practice, differences in spending patterns across households and differences in price increases across goods and services lead to unequal levels of inflation for different households. In this paper, we measure the degree of...

This paper proposes a targeting methodology focused on household's deprivations that helps the public decision-maker in Tunisia to alleviate multidimensional poverty. In the first part of this research, we intend to decipher the relationship between official poverty measurement and anti-poverty...

Our purpose is to analyze the degree of concentration of household wealth in Mexico during a period of intense economic reforms. Unlike the imputation method proposed by Davies et al. (2006 and 2010), we propose an observed data approach based on micro data. The use of physical units constitutes...

To identify and quantify downside risks to housing markets, we apply the house price-at-risk methodology to a sample of 37 cities across the United States and Canada using quarterly data from 1983 to 2018. This paper finds that downside risks to housing markets in the United States have...