Are two parents and single parents allocating household resources to children in the same way? Which factors affect … intra-household inequality? Do mothers re-distribute more income to children as they are more empowered? We focus on child … children and adults, exploiting the observability of assignable goods. We provide the first evidence of intra-household …

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 … to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject …