Standard household economics assumes that couples pool their incomes and share the sum equally, which is a necessary … advancement of this paper is the use of panel data, which enables me to account for unobserved heterogeneity at the household …

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 …

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 …

crops are differentially sensitive to particular kinds of rainfall shocks. We find that conditional on overall household …

and household welfare. Special attention is paid to methodological issues on how to design a module and operationalize … and discuss a generic household module that can be easily inserted into future socio-economic surveys implemented in …

Pseudo-panels allow estimation of panel models when only repeated cross-sections are available. This involves grouping …

Household scale economies are plausibly attributed to shared household public goods that make larger households better …, the per capita demand for food decreases with household size and that it does so most in the poorest countries, where …