Can consumption taxes reduce inequality in developing countries? This paper combines household expenditure data from 31 …

collective household model offers an alternative and promising framework to estimate poverty at the individual level while …A key element of anti-poverty policy is the accurate identification of poor individuals. However, measuring poverty at … the individual level is difficult since consumption data are typically collected at the household level. Per capita …

Collective models have become the go-to framework for intra-household allocations. Available empirical collective … models are built for fixed sets of household members and accommodate diversity in household structures with difficulty … naturally to households of all shapes and sizes. An intuitive assumption about how allocations change with household composition …