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 …

We investigate the relationship between the individual and household indirect utility functions in the context of a … collective household model. Our analysis produces new results that explain how the rule governing the distribution of resources … among household members is related to the measurement of household welfare and intra-household inequality. We show that in a …

Equivalence scales are often used to adjust household income for differences in characteristics that affect needs. For … those implied by the ‘square root of household size’ equivalence scale. Our results have important implications when …

economies of scale are understated (as is the case when using the 'square root of household size'), the relative poverty … larger than those implied by the widely accepted 'square root of household size' equivalence scale. Our results indicate that …

standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well … poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …