There has been no consensus over the concept and measurement of vulnerability to poverty (VP). Many scholars bring in … dynamic aspects of poverty, which are extremely important for formulating appropriate and effective poverty alleviation …

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 …

from Bangladesh and Mexico, and use the model estimates to compute poverty rates for men, women, and children. Contrary to … existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take … that are common in developing countries. Based on a collective household model, we develop a new methodology to identify …

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 …