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Brandolini, Andrea; Magri, Silvia; Smeeding, Timothy M. - Banca d'Italia - 2010

Poverty is generally defined as income or expenditure insufficiency, but the economic condition of a household also depends on its real and financial asset holdings. This paper investigates measures of poverty that rely on indicators of household net worth. We review and assess two main...

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How Serious is the Neglect of Intra-Household Inequality in Multi-Dimensional Poverty Indices?

Klasen, Stephan - 2016

household and thus yield a biased assessment of individual poverty and poverty by age or gender. In this paper we first show …

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Individual Poverty Measurement Using a Fuzzy Intrahousehold Approach

Betti, Gianni - 2017

This work studies the impact of accounting for intrahousehold inequality in the distribution of resources for the measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves. For the poverty analysis, we propose a fuzzy...

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Reforma Impositiva Progresiva Al Iva : Analizando La Pobreza Y Desigualdad En El Ecuador (Progressive Reform of Value Added Tax: An Investigation on Poverty and Inequality in Ecuad...

Varela, Marcelo - 2020

Spanish Abstract: Este documento tiene como objetivo evaluar los efectos de realizar una reforma progresiva al Impuesto al Valor Agregado (IVA) como un mecanismo de redistribución de ingresos y gastos en Ecuador, así como determinar qué productos deben reducir el porcentaje, qué productos...

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Modelling Gender Dimensions of the Impact of Economic Reforms in Pakistan

Siddiqui, Rizwana - 2007

Recently, gender-aware computable general equilibrium models (CGE) have been developed to analyse the impact of trade … liberalization, with focus on a gender-disaggregated analysis of the production side of the economy. However, these studies ignore … the gender-specific consumption effects due to the paucity of gender disaggregated data. We introduce intra …

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Snap and Food Consumption : A Collective Household Approach with Homescan Data

Lin, Xirong - 2022

I study how individual preferences and bargaining power within couples affects the impact of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Using longitudinal Homescan data, I find that wives have stronger preferences for SNAP-eligible food than husbands, and that household demand...

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The role of tax-benefit systems in protecting household incomes in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic

Rodriguez, David; Jara, H. Xavier; Dondo, Mariana; … - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically affected household incomes around the world. In developed economies, pre-pandemic tax-benefit policies and emergency transfers mitigated to a large extent the negative income shock. However, less is known about the effect of government intervention on household...

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The effects of disability on households' economic livelihoods and poverty in Vietnam

Kiely, Sean; Buehler, Dorothee; Rink, Ute; Kiesel, Kristin - 2023

Could households be both more vulnerable and more resilient to shocks depending on the type of shock experienced and the overall circumstances in which they live? If so, what policy implications can be drawn from such findings? We investigate both the immediate effects of shocks on household's...

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Food Demand and Cash Transfers : A Collective Household Approach with Homescan Data

Lin, Xirong - 2022

I study how individual preferences and bargaining power within older couples affects the impact of cash transfers on food demand. Using longitudinal Homescan data, I find that wives have stronger preferences for food than husbands, and that household demand patterns for food are affected by...

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Croissance, distribution et pauvreté : un modèle de micro simulation en équilibre général appliqué à Madagascar

Cogneau, Denis; Robilliard, Anne-Sophie - DIAL - 2001

This paper presents a microsimulation model in a General Equilibrium framework applied to Madagascar. The model is primarily focused on labor markets and labor allocation at the household level, and consumption behavior is also modeled. At the aggregate level, it allows for the endogenous...

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