working-age disabled, but for most of them, income from public transfers and from the earnings of other household members are … comparing US disability policy with that in other Western industrialized countries and identifying research issues that are …

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 …

existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take … consumption. In this paper, we study individual consumption in different types of households, with a focus on family structures … that are common in developing countries. Based on a collective household model, we develop a new methodology to identify …

naturally to households of all shapes and sizes. An intuitive assumption about how allocations change with household composition …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 …