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Differences across countries and time in household expenditure patterns : implications for the estimation of equivalence scales

Daley, Angela; Garner, Thesia Isedora; Phipps, Shelly; … - In: International review of applied economics 34 (2020) 6, pp. 734-757

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Differences across place and time in household expenditure patterns : implications for the estimation of equivalence scales

Daley, Angela; Garner, Thesia Isedora; Phipps, Shelley A.; … - 2020

Equivalence scales are often used to adjust household income for differences in characteristics that affect needs. For example, a family of two is assumed to need more income than a single person, but not double due to economies of scale in consumption. However, in comparing economic well-being...

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Differences across countries and time in household expenditure patterns : implications for the estimation of equivalence scales

Daley, Angela; Garner, Thesia Isedora; Phipps, Shelley A.; … - 2020

economies of scale are understated (as is the case when using the 'square root of household size'), the relative poverty …

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Economic well-being and poverty among the elderly : an analysis based on a collective consumption model

Cherchye, Laurens (contributor); Rock, Bram de (contributor) - 2008

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Economic well-being and poverty among the elderly : an analysis based on a collective consumption model

Cherchye, Laurens (contributor); Rock, Bram de (contributor) - 2008

poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a consumption technology that captures the economies … scale and a wife's share that is increasing in total expenditures. We further calculated poverty rates by means of the … collective consumption model. Collective poverty rates of widows and widowers turn out to be slightly lower than traditional ones …