In this paper, we investigate the link between intra-household resource allocation and familial ties between household …" familial ties (e.g. a nuclear family household) achieve near Pareto efficient allocation of productive resources and Pareto … efficient allocation of consumption while households with "weaker" familial ties (e.g. an extended family household) do not. We …

The paper argues that household budgets are the best starting point for investigating a number of big questions related … associated problems of small, incomplete, and unrepresentative samples. We introduce the Historical Household Budgets (HHB …

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 … inequality and poverty. We conclude that differences in estimation methods for equivalence scales might be less important than …

methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered … these changes. First, we present theory showing significant mismeasurement of welfare for households who can shift into … remote work during the pandemic. We then propose methods to impute transportation cost equivalents for household expenditure …

find that through bulk purchasing the average household could spend 8.9% less on observed quantities (or consume 15.6% more …

The paucity of reliable, timely household consumption data in many low- and middleincome countries has made it … collecting household consumption data, which is rarely done by phone. To test the feasibility of collecting consumption data over … in in-person interviews; the bias is correlated with household characteristics. While the phone survey mode provides …

Economic volatility remains a fact of life in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Household-level shocks create large consumption … vulnerability to shocks across household types (e.g. by education, ethnic group, and economic activity) and we quantify the impact … mechanisms, including financial access and transfers. Country characteristics crucially determine which household-level shocks …

This study investigates on Pakistani and South African data gender issues in household behavior.A test for gender bias ….Widowhood poverty is no greater than that overall,but the picture changes dramatically if we allow economies of household size …

We use data from the Survey of Financial Security and the Survey of Household Spending to estimate the incidence and … method of identifying households that under-report income using the household's budget share on shelter. …