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Does Less Inequality among Households Mean Less Inequality among Individuals?
Peluso, Eugenio; Trannoy, Alain - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2004
Consider an income distribution among households of the same size in which individuals, equally needy from the point of view of an ethical observer, are treated unfairly. Individuals are split into two types, the dominant and the dominated. We look for conditions under which welfare and...
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From household to individual’s welfare: does the Lorenz criteria still hold? Theory and Evidence from French Data
Couprie, Helen; Peluso, Eugenio; Trannoy, Alain - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2005
find that the concavity of the expenditures devoted to public goods relatively to household income is a necessary condition …. This condition also becomes sufficient, if joined with the concavity of the expenditure devoted to private goods of the … double concavity condition is then non-parametrically tested on French households. …
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Child welfare and intra-household inequality in Albania
Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Piccoli, Luca - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009
The present paper aims at contributing to the literature on children welfare evaluation by taking into account for intra-household distribution of resources and, as a consequence, intra-household inequality. This task cannot be accomplished within the standard framework of unitary model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512114
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Child Welfare in Albania Using a Collective Approach
Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Perali, Federico; Piccoli, Luca - Departament d'Economia Aplicada, Facultat de Ciències … - 2010
The present article aims at contributing to the literature on children welfare evaluation by taking into account intra-household distribution of resources and, as a consequence, intra-household inequality. This task cannot be accomplished within the standard framework of unitary models of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564423
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How serious is the neglect of intra-household inequality in multi-dimensional poverty indices?
Klasen, Stephan; Lahoti, Rahul - 2016
Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this paper we first show that the direction of the bias...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441664
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Gender and multidimensional poverty in Nicaragua: An individual-based approach
Espinoza-Delgado, José; Klasen, Stephan - 2017
Most existing empirical papers concerned about multidimensional poverty use the house- hold as the unit of analysis, meaning that multidimensional poverty status of the household is equated with the multidimensional poverty status of all individuals in the household. This assumption,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011701125
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From Household to Individual Welfare Comparisons: A Double Concavity Test
Couprie, Helene; Peluso, Eugenio; Trannoy, Alain - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2007
preserved. The concavity of the expenditures devoted to public goods relative to household income is a necessary condition for … the preservation result. This condition also becomes sufficient, if joined with the concavity of the expenditure devoted … to private goods of the disadvantaged individual. This double concavity condition also proves to be crucial for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969049
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OLS estimation of the intra-household distribution of expenditure
Lechene, Valérie; Pendakur, Krishna; Wolf, Alex - 2021
We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar, Lewbel and Pendakur (2013), extended to allow single-parent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012625397
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Is intra-household power more balanced in poor households? A parametric alternative
Helene, Couprie - Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application … - 2009
This note provides a complement to the empirical part of Couprie, Peluso, Trannoy (2009)..It provides a parametric estimate of the intra-household sharing rule using clothes consumption french data.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008495488
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Is power more evenly balanced in poor households?
Helene, Couprie; Eugenio, Peluso; Alain, Trannoy - Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application … - 2009
well as the part of private expenditure devoted to the disadvantaged individual. This double concavity condition is non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008495490