average share of household income from welfare transfers), low-income targeting, and universalism - and poverty and … social policy better reduces poverty than social policies targeted at the poor. This article revisits Korpi and Palme … developed and developing countries. Consistent with Korpi and Palme, we show (1) poverty is negatively associated with transfer …

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 …